jconn2.jar not preloaded in WLS 8.1 after all

[Tom Hirsch]

The following statement appears in the 8.1 version of your "Programming WebLogic
JDBC" documentation:

"The 9.2.0 version of the Oracle Thin driver (ojdbc14.jar) and the 4.5 (jConnect.jar)
and 5.5 (jconn2.jar) versions of the Sybase jConnect driver are installed in the
WL_HOME\server\lib folder (where WL_HOME is the folder where WebLogic Platform
is installed) with weblogic.jar. The manifest in weblogic.jar lists these files
so that they are loaded when weblogic.jar is loaded (when the server starts).
Therefore, you do not need to add these JDBC drivers to your CLASSPATH."

I checked the manifest.mf file in the weblogic.jar file for my WLS 8.1 installation.
It contains the following in its classpath entry:

Class-Path: wlcipher.jar webservices.jar xmlx.jar ojdbc14.jar Eccpress
oAsn1.jar EccpressoCore.jar EccpressoJcae.jar ant/ant.jar ant/optiona
l.jar ant/jakarta-oro-2.0.4.jar

Where's the jconn2.jar as promised? When I try to create a JDBC connection pool
using "Sybase's Driver (Type 4) Versions:5.X" in the console, I get the following
error: "JDBC driver is not on the CLASSPATH". This should work every time.

Thanks very much. --Tom

[Stephen Felts]

This is a recently reported problem and a patch will be available for it.
In the mean time, add it to your CLASSPATH explictly.

This is a problem with late changing requirements. JConnect was
actually pulled from 8.1 and then put back. It will really be pulled in
the next major release. We will have a new type 4 driver for
Sybase starting in WLS 8.1SP2.

"Tom Hirsch" <thomas...@baesystems.com> wrote in message
news:3f70...@newsgroups.bea.com...

[Matthew O'Haire]

When can we expect to see WLS8.1SP2 ?