Torsten Heinen created GEOS-5063:
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Summary: Support Informix as a JDBC authentication provider
Key: GEOS-5063
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GEOS-5063
Project: GeoServer
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Security
Affects Versions: 2.2-beta1
Reporter: Torsten Heinen
Assignee: Andrea Aime
Priority: Minor
Informix cannot be used as a JDBC authentication provider [1]. It seems that the Informix JDBC driver does not support the discovery through the "DriverManager.getDrivers" method that is used in the new security subsystem to find all available JDBC drivers.
Looking at the Informix docs, it seems that the driver needs to be discovered through Class.forName [2] and instantiated with DriverManager.getConnection(url) [3].
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.geoserver.user/32105
[2] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.jdbc_pg.doc/jdbc51.htm
[3] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.jdbc_pg.doc/jdbc48.htm
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