Dear Tom Cunningham Now I am closing the Context tag but tomcat service manager does not start after making this change in Server.XML, just above the </host> tag <Context path="/juddi" docBase="juddi" debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"/> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="localhost_juddiDB_log" suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/> <!-- the Resource element will probably work better for you on Tomcat 5+ if you simply use a Resource only tag with xml attributes as opposed to the nested ResourceParams and parameter elements --> <Resource name="jdbc/juddiDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" username="juddi" password="juddi" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/juddi?autoReconnect=true"/> <!-- <Resource name="jdbc/juddi" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" username="juddi" password="juddi" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/juddi?autoReconnect=true"/> Ur early reply is requested please. Regards Muhammad Kashif
