[DAS] Setting up DAS with ensembl plugin

[Steven Van Vooren]

Dear list,

I am using a dazzle server to feed human genome annotations from a mysql
database. It suddenly stopped working. I upgraded to Dazzle 1.01 and changed
my config file, to no avail. Any pointers would be welcome.

1. On ensembldb.ensembl.org, the core tables for homo sapiens are currently
at 24_34e. I changed my config file accordingly.

2. I see the sanger das reference server seems to feed ensembl1834. I
changed the mapmaster key accordingly: <string name="mapMaster"
value="http://servlet.sanger.ac.uk:8080/das/ensembl1834" />

Initialisation keeps failing, though:

DazzleServerMain: init
org.biojava.servlets.dazzle.DazzleServlet: Error initializing installation
org.biojava.servlets.dazzle.datasource.DataSourceException: Couldn't
instantiate data source ensembl2434e_bridge at
org.biojava.servlets.dazzle.datasource.BasicDazzleInstallation.parseConfigFi
le(BasicDazzleInstallation.java:129)

Below is my current config file. Can anyone point out what's wrong?

<dazzle xmlns="http://www.biojava.org/2000/dazzle">

  <resource id="ensembl2434e_bridge" jclass="ensembl.EnsemblHolder">
    <string name="dbURL"
value="jdbc:mysql://ensembldb.ensembl.org/homo_sapiens_core_24_34e" />
    <string name="dbUser" value="anonymous" />
    <string name="dbPass" value="" />
    <boolean name="useHeavyClones" value="true" />
    <int name="schemaVersion" value="24" />
  </resource>

  <datasource id="ensembl2434e" jclass="ensembl.EnsemblReferenceSource">
    <string name="ensemblHolderID" value="ensembl2434e_bridge" />
    <string name="name" value="Ensembl 24.34e" />
    <string name="description" value="The human genome from Ensembl" />
    <string name="version" value="24.34e" />
    <set name="elideTypes">
      <string value="repeat" />
      <string value="similarity" />
      <string value="TSS" />
    </set>
    <string name="stylesheet" value="ensemblbase-style.xml" />
    <string name="ensemblWebURL"
value="http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/" />
  </datasource>

<!-- My annotations from mySQL -->
<datasource id="allclones" jclass="ensembl.EnsemblGenericSeqFeatureSource">
<string name="ensemblHolderID" value="ensembl2434e_bridge" />
<string name="name" value="allclones" />
<string name="description" value="A data source" />
<string name="version" value="1.00" />
<string name="mapMaster"
value="http://servlet.sanger.ac.uk:8080/das/ensembl1834" />
<string name="dbURL" value="jdbc:mysql://.../ensembl_generic" />
<string name="dbUser" value="..." />
<string name="dbPass" value="..." />
<string name="tableName" value="allclones" />
<string name="stylesheet" value="generic-style.xml" />
</datasource>

</dazzle>

Thanks,
Steven