how can I get java bindings in basex working?

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Sandra Maria Silcot <ssilcot at unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > Fellow basex users, > > First, I can report that the recent optimisation enhancements have solved > the performance issue I had reported -- thanks to the basex team. Basex > most definitely rocks. > > Second, I am trying to implement a java binding as described here: > > http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/dbis/basex/xquery > > Thanks to the recent extra instruction added by the kindly basex > developers, I have been able to use maven (2.2.1) on a ubuntu 64bit server > to successfully compile basex from source. Excellent. > > But I am now wanting to do this in a basex xquery: > > declare namespace sim = "java:smstest.b4asims"; > let $sim := sim:b4asims(xs:string("smith"), xs:string("smyth")) > > where this is a little jar I built around the simmetrics similarity > library, like this: > > jar -cvf smstest.jar smstest/b4asims.class > > This successfully runs from the command line, under the same user the > basex server runs under, like so (with the jar in my $CLASSPATH): > > BaseX 6.0.8 [Server] > Server was started. > fas@devfas: ~ $ java smstest.b4asims smith smythe > ..str1=smith first=m > Soundex score 0.9222222:smith:smythe > Levenshtein score 0.6666666:smith:smythe > JaroWinkler score 0.8577778:smith:smythe > - total [smythe]=2.4466667 > == score=2.4466667 bestScore=2.4466667 bestMatch=[smythe] > #### bestScore=2.4466667 bestMatch=[smythe] > > I have tried every possible variation of the namespace definition and > invoking the function in basex but it always says; > > [XPST0017] Unknown function "sim:b4asims(...)" > > In the pom.xml for basex I have added this: > > <groupId>smstest.b4asims</groupId> > <artifactId>b4asims</artifactId> > <scope>system</scope> > <version>1.0</version> > <systemPath>/media/disk2/fasrepo/common-bin/java/smstest.jar</systemPath> > </dependency> > > and it compiles successfully, and I can then do a mvn 'package', and > deploy the jar to my basex home dir, and run it but I simply cannot get > the java bindings to work. I also tried alot of variations here, but to no > avail. > > Clearly there is something really basic I am missing? I have tried the > examples given on the basex documentation (the Math and file writer egs) > and get exactly the same results -- Unknown function. All of my other java > stuff on this box seems to work fine. > > I'm guessing that there is something in maven or eclipse which supplies > the magic which I'm missing. I'm just using maven on the server, not > eclipse. > > Any suggestions for a non-java developer would be most gratefully > received. > > Best wishes to all, > > Sandra.