Oxygen XML Forum

Hello,

I am having a problem with getting oXygen to connect to a running eXist database. The problem is that when I tro to refresh the list of known collections in the oXygen configuration under XML/[XSLT/FO/XQUERY]/XQuery/eXist, I get the following error:

eXist libraries are not present in file:/opt/oxygen/lib/ directory. Please check the XQuery section from the user manual for instructions.

Obviously, I cannot execute XQuery statements against the eXist instance, they result in the same error.

The thing is, the libraries are there, and they should be accessible. I am running Ubuntu Linux and using oXygen Version 7.2 Exist version 1.0-dev, using Sun's JDK 1.5.0_03. The files I copied over to [oxygen install]/dir are:
- exist.jar
- xmlrpc-1.2-patched.jar
- xmldb.jar,
as requested by the help. File ownership and permissions seem ok. Yet it seems oXygen cannot find them.

Any more hints on this?

Thanks in advance
Thorsten Krüger

Hello,

Did you restart <oXygen/> after adding the eXist jars to the lib folder as required by step 2 of the procedure ?

Regards,
Sorin

Thanks for the quick answer.

Yes, I did restart it. Several times by now, including the whole system. Still the same, strangely enough.

Hello,

tkrueger wrote:I get the following error:

eXist libraries are not present in file:/opt/oxygen/lib/ directory. Please check the XQuery section from the user manual for instructions.

...

The files I copied over to [oxygen install]/dir are:

Did you copy the 3 jar files to /opt/oxygen/lib/ before restarting <oXygen/> ? The dir subdirectory does not exist.

Regards,
Sorin

Sorry, I meant [oxygen install]/lib, typo in my reply.

And yes, I did copy them before. As I said, they are in there now, and oXygen has been restarted several times. A 'ls -al /opt/oxygen/lib' shows them with the same rights and owner as the rest (which is my normal non-root user, the same oXygen is started with).

Come to think of it, oXygen did run when I copied them, and I did restart it afterwards. But that shouldn't result in any permanent lock, should it?

Puzzled greetings
Thorsten

I am saved!

Still not sure what was wrong, but I just deleted the .com.oxygemxml/ folder in my home directory, just in case. Works like a charm now. It seems there was some configuration information from previous versions of oXygen that somehow messed things up.

Thanks for the time and effort!

Regards
Thorsten