[mjonesworld]

When using Spring and the MyEclipse Spring Config Editor, formatting the document by Ctrl-Shift-F or by a wizard(such as hibernate wizards) editing the file introduces tabs and newlines, causing the class names to be “not found”.

After the running the hibernate wizards I had this:

<property name="url">
            <value>
                jdbc:sqlserver://Turret:1433;databaseName=onyx
            </value>
        </property>

Which threw this error, and took a lot of fruitless googling for an answer.

ERROR [main] (JDBCExceptionReporter.java:72) - Cannot create JDBC driver of class 'com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver' for connect URL '
                jdbc:sqlserver://Turret:1433;databaseName=onyx

I removed the tabs before and the newlines after the class name, thusly:

<property name="url">
            <value>jdbc:sqlserver://Turret:1433;databaseName=onyx</value>
        </property>

And the application runs fine.
Hitting CTRL-SHIFT-F to format the file, adds the tabs, spaces and newlines back in, breaking the application again.
I experienced this in the spring of 2005, in what ever version was released then, I am now on
Eclipse
Version: 3.2.0.v20060609m-AgOexn6hlEUsvBO
Build id: M20060629-1905
MyEclipse
Version: 5.0.0
Build id: 20060805-5.0-GA

I am surprised to have the same problem, I don’t know if it is Spring, Eclipse or My Eclipse, but it is very frustrating to habitually CTRL-SHIFT-F and break a huge Spring XML file, or run a wizard and break it.

I hope someone stumbles across this post and save themselves some fruitless googling and gets to do some ogling instead.

Mark

[Riyad Kalla]

Mark,
I will file this bug ASAP, this may be a bad mis-use of the XML formatter not realizing that the whitespace can cause a break in files.

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