Alek,

Thanks for your helpful feedback -

> first: example config is incorrect as & is not escaped it should be:
[snip]

Fixed and committed to CVS

> second: printing more menaingful errors is *really* useful in
> Main.java:
[snip]

Errors generated within loadConfiguration are now written to the log, along
with the stack trace.

> * third: in build.xml it should be debug="true" (instead of
> debug="fasle") to see line numbers in exception,
[snip]

Build file updated and committed to CVS

> * fourth: i have managed nntprss to connect to MySQL4 but i get this
> weird exception - anybody any idea? i used org.slashdot RSS channel
> for testing configured in nntprss-config.xml
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I found a few bugs in the JDBC code - the particular one you were
experiencing was due to a missing space between the id column name and the
WHERE constraint.

I've just checked in an update to CVS containing a number of fixes to the
JDBC code. This should get you up and running.

Regards,

Jason