Diego Zanga-

Thank you for your in-depth feedback and taking the time to dig into the source code. That's a rare pleasure. The "5.0" branch is under development at this time and some of the issues that you mention have been, or are planned to be, addressed in that branch.

You've encountered several things, so let me try to take them by category.

Code dependencies: * For Connector/MXJ 5.0, Connector/J 5.0 is required. This is the beta version.

* JUnit is required to build the tests and can be downloaded from junit.org

* For JMX support, Either Java 1.5 or Java 1.4 with a JMX library.

* To build the sample JMX application, Sun's JMX's implementation is required. (In particular the "jmxtools.jar")

It looks as though the first thing that was giving you trouble is the base directory. This has been addressed in the source tree of Connector/MXJ. However, in the mean time, when creating directories, rather than using the "." to specify working directory, using System.getProperty("user.dir") will avoid the errors that you are seeing.

String userDirStr = System.getProperty("user.dir"); File userDir = new File(userDirStr); File baseDir = new File(userDir, "npaMysql");

This should avoid the "datadir" and socket file creation, and PID file creation problems.

Alternatively use of java.io.File's canonical path would also work, I suspect.

In the next release of Connector/MXJ, this will not be an issue, and wherever wherever we converting between strings and files we will be using the file.getCanonicalPath().

Also, on the source tree of the Connector/MXJ 5.0 branch, if a socket file is not specified, the socket file in no longer placed in the "basedir", but in the "datadir".

The "--no-defaults" option is added to avoid reading an existing "my.cnf" file from some other installation of MySQL on our system. I personal develop using linux and test under a couple of different linux configurations. This is the first report of an issue with "--no-defaults" ... if you could help me reproduce this problem I would like to get to the bottom of it. Next week I'll make sure I do some testing on SUSE 10.

Cheers, -- Eric

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