#1. The example asks you to create a DB named InventoryDB and then run some sql commands to create tables.
#2. Your web.xml has a resource ref to jdbc/InventoryDS. This is a part of the jndi name of the datasource (not database). #3. The geronimo-web.xml links your jdbc/InventoryDS with the datasource's name called InventoryPool. #4. Then the InventoryPool.xml which is the alt-DD for the RA links the InventoryPool datasource with the InventoryDB you created in #1. http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/geronimo/samples/trunk/samples/inventory/inventory-ear/src/main/resources/InventoryPool.xml?view=markup For further reading, check out this link http://localhost:8080/console/portal//Services/Database%20Pools/__pm0x3system-database0x2DBWizard!1134683811%7C0_view/__rp0x3system-database0x2DBWizard!1134683811%7C0_name/InventoryPool/__rp0x3system-database0x2DBWizard!1134683811%7C0_mode/usage/__rp0x3system-database0x2DBWizard!1134683811%7C0_abstractName/org0x2apache0x2geronimo0x2samples0x3inventory-ear0x320x20-SNAPSHOT0x3ear0xaJ2EEApplication=org0x2apache0x2geronimo0x2samples0x3inventory-ear0x320x20-SNAPSHOT0x3ear,JCAConnectionFactory=InventoryPool,JCAResource=tranql-connector-ra-10x230x2rar,ResourceAdapter=tranql-connector-ra-10x230x2rar,ResourceAdapterModule=tranql-connector-ra-10x230x2rar,j2eeType=JCAManagedConnectionFactory,name=InventoryPool This is the usage link for the InventoryPool under "Database Pools" navigational link. If you have deployed the Inventory app, you will see this link too. Hope this helps Cheers Prasad On 10/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi , we are working on the geronimo one project. We were looking at a > sample application that connects to the database in geronimo . Upone > studying it we stumbled upon a syntax that has a little confused > > In your DBManager.java for the inventory application we found this line of > code. > > DataSource ds = > (DataSource)context.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/InventoryDS"); > > We know what the function does . We just don't know what the parameter > represents. Which part of the parameter represents the database we are > connecting to? We need to know the nature of the parameter so that we can > use it in our own application. > > >
