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Matt,
Just a note: as you seem to be just getting started with everything,
might I make the bold recommendation that you avoid doing any database
work from JSPs?
Databases are notoriously finicky when it comes to resource management
(cleaning up aft
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/connector-j-usagenotes-j2ee.html#connector-j-usagenotes-tomcat
specifies these configurationparameters
If the name you specify in java:/comp/env doesnt match the resource
then the container wont be able to locate the driver
Your best bet is to download
Matt,
If you don't find anything suggestive in the logs, try running with a
debugger and put a breakpoint
on the first statement in the contextInitialized method in your
AppListener to try to track down
why it's dying (i.e., what's causing SEVERE: Error listenerStart).
Then start steppting
> From: Matt Burkhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Down the rabbit hole with JDBC
>
> INFO: The listener "org.alfresco.web.app.ContextListener" is already
> configured for this context. The duplicate definition has
> been ignored.
The above is a cosmetic
Thanks - it was the first - I just had the files in the WEB-INF
directory - not in the lib
Is there some method for finding errors / logs? Right now, I'm trying
to get an application running, and I'm just guessing. For example, my
catalina.log file says
INFO: The listener "org.alfresco.web.app.
This isn't a JDBC error as much as it's a taglib error. You are trying
to use JSTL taglibs in your web application and tomcat can't find the
libraries that contain the taglib. Things to check:
1. standard.jar and jstl.jar are in the webapp's WEB-INF/lib directory
-- at least for jstl 1.1. I