Bug#341777: Support Mysql for WebApps deployed to Tomcat

[Andreas Schildbach]

Kalle Kivimaa wrote:

> If a webapp wants to use a DB, it is up to the maintainer of that
> webapp package to decide which DB's s/he is going to support.

Why don't you let the administrator decide upon the database? After all, 
that's what the SQL standard and the JDBC driver/JNDI datasource 
architectures are designed for.

> I'd
> guess that I would simply link all those JDBC libraries which are in
> main (actually, I probably need to do this when JSPWiki 2.4 comes
> out), but some other maintainers might take a different approach.

Does this mean that if I'm going to install JSPWiki 2.4, that package 
depends on drivers of all databases in main, and thus I have to install 
all those drivers? I'm afraid I'm not very happy with this solution, 
because I'd like to limit to just one database system. Why would I want 
drivers for dozends of DBs on my system if I'm only going to use Postgres?

Also, what approach are you going to take with tomcat5-admin? The admin 
uses Realms for authentication if this hasn't changed lately, so the 
database driver cannot be copied/linked to WEB-INF/lib rather than 
common/lib.