[m2e-dev] m2eclipse-wtp and JDBC drivers

[Derek Lewis <derek@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

We've been using m2e and WTP on a project for a while, and just brought a bunch of developers onto the project which has exposed something we didn't realize before.  The small group of us that were working on this before had our database drivers in the lib dir of the tomcat installation our WTP servers were set up to use.  These new developers have fresh tomcat installations, without the database driver, and are getting classpath exceptions.

I've found mention of a similar issue here, but the only resolution there is to manually copy the driver: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8106011/java-lang-classnotfoundexception-com-mysql-jdbc-driver-during-runtime-eclipse

What I'm wondering is it there is any way for m2e-wtp to take care of this automatically, or if this is a feature that could be added?

We're currently on m2e 0.12.2 and m2e-wtp 0.12.0.  (We're sort of stuck on these versions, because we have a fair number of custom configurators that are build against that version of m2e, with the old package names)

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers.