arcExplorer installation on windows client issues - cannot
create

Hi,
  I install arcExplorer3.0 java edition onto my laptop(db2 v8.2 client and
JDK1.5), without install jre1.3.1 because I have existing jdk1.5, the db2 server
is on another machine, spatial extender already installed correctly and verfied
sucessfully with GSEdemo.exe. 
  I have copied db2java.zip to $jre/lib/ext and catlog remote database to local
node.
 now I run arcExplorer --> add Layer--> add db2 connection --> dbname:
sampleSE(local node dbname) , user: administrator, password: 12456 --> test
connecton

it returns me following error info:



creating workspace  server =<> instance =<esri_sde>
Connecting with  user =<Administrator>
Exception in thread "Thread-22" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
	at com.esri.sde.sql3.m.a(Unknown Source)
	at com.esri.sde.sql3.m.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at com.esri.aims.sdk.client.sde.i.b(Unknown Source)
	at com.esri.aims.sdk.client.sde.i.getLayerSource(Unknown Source)
	at com.esri.aims.sdk.client.sde.i.getLayerSourceDB2(Unknown Source)
	at com.esri.cc.cat.fd.d(Unknown Source)
	at com.esri.cc.cat.fd.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)


any suggestion?

In my experience, ArcExplorer V3 for DB2 is very sensitive to the JRE level.

Although I am running with JDK1.5 also for most applications, in order 
to run ArcExplorer, I installed as well the JRE 1.3 that is available 
with the ArcExplorer download.

Have you looked at uDig open source project?  There is a DB2-plugin for 
this.

David

wangmin2001@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>   I install arcExplorer3.0 java edition onto my laptop(db2 v8.2 client and
JDK1.5), without install jre1.3.1 because I have existing jdk1.5, the db2 server
is on another machine, spatial extender already installed correctly and verfied
sucessfully with GSEdemo.exe. 
>   I have copied db2java.zip to $jre/lib/ext and catlog remote database to
local node.
>  now I run arcExplorer --> add Layer--> add db2 connection -->
dbname: sampleSE(local node dbname) , user: administrator, password: 12456
--> test connecton
> 
> it returns me following error info:
> 
> 
> 
> creating workspace  server =<> instance =<esri_sde>
> Connecting with  user =<Administrator>
> Exception in thread "Thread-22" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
> 	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
> 	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164)
> 	at com.esri.sde.sql3.m.a(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.esri.sde.sql3.m.<init>(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.esri.aims.sdk.client.sde.i.b(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.esri.aims.sdk.client.sde.i.getLayerSource(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.esri.aims.sdk.client.sde.i.getLayerSourceDB2(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.esri.cc.cat.fd.d(Unknown Source)
> 	at com.esri.cc.cat.fd.run(Unknown Source)
> 	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
> 
> 
> any suggestion?
> 
> 

Hi,David,thanks for your help.
I just find db2 plugin from geotools website, and found you are the owner for
this plugin,I am no sure what I should do ,do I need to install geotools and
install db2 plugin on it, then we can connect to db2 to view/update geo data?
you mean we even do not need arcExplorer?

thanks!

Hi,David,
 I just download uDig and install it.but I cannot find where to set connection
to db2, do I need a separate db2 plug-in to enable it? where can I download it
?
  any suggestion?

GeoTools is just a toolkit so you would need to build a Java application 
around it which uses the db2 plugin.  While GeoTools is very high 
function, it is non-trivial to build an application to render spatial data.

uDig is both a standalone geobrowser and a set of high-level components 
to build a spatial end-user application in Eclipse although I have only 
used the standalone geobrowser.

wangmin2001@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi,David,thanks for your help.
> I just find db2 plugin from geotools website, and found you are the owner
for this plugin,I am no sure what I should do ,do I need to install geotools and
install db2 plugin on it, then we can connect to db2 to view/update geo data?
> you mean we even do not need arcExplorer?
> 
> thanks!
> 
>