Hi all,

I am running BaseX 8.6.3 currently and struggling with the inclusion of modules written in Java. I have extended the Hello World example:

package org.basex.modules;

public class Hello {

    private String str = "BaseX";

    public Hello() {}

    public Hello(String str) {
        this.str = str;
    }

    public String hello(final String world) {
        return "Hello " + world;
    }

    public String hello() {
        return "Hello " + str;
    }
}

I can pack it into a jar-file and install it successfully. My jar-file is structured as following:

hello.jar
  - META-INF
    - MANIFEST.MF
  - org
    - basex
      - modules
        - Hello.class

Here is the content of my manifest.mf:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Main-Class: org.basex.modules.Hello

The methods of the Hello-class can be called without any problems when the module is imported:

import module namespace t='org.basex.modules.Hello';

t:hello('text')

However, when I try to explicitly create the object by calling the constructor (new) with arguments it fails:

declare namespace t='org.basex.modules.Hello';

let $obj := t:new('test')

return ''

When I try to call the constructor I receive the error [XPST0017] Unknown function: Q{org.basex.modules.Hello}new.

Since I am able to execute the FileWriter example (http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Java_Bindings#Namespace_Declarations) which calls a constructor with an argument I would like to know if this behavior is a bug or if I am missing an important point.

Regards,
Ilko