[HOP-1795] Create a default variable for the folder containing jdbc drivers

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: pre-apache
• Component/s: CLI, GUI, Hop Server
• Labels: Database pre-apache usability
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Maximilian Michels
• Created: 04/Oct/20 12:19
• Updated: 04/Oct/20 12:51
• Resolved: 04/Oct/20 12:30

Description

Create a new variable HOP_DEPENDENCIES_FOLDER (or something equivalent) with a default value of <HOP HOME FOLDER>/lib/jdbc

Use this variable as the value for the <folder> tag in all dependencies.xml files located in /plugins/databases. So this value would be the default. Putting database drivers in lib/jdbc would then work out of the box. Users could use the dependencies folder variable to handle this differently.

Discussion is: better separation of standard jar files and jdbc driver files and easier handling in containers.