Hello - You may wish to try something a little bit more fundamental if you are new to the Java thing. one good way to learn how everything works in JSP is to use a free Java Server, such as Tomcat, and build pages using Macromedia's ultradev software. There is an extension that installs JDBC-ODBC connectivity through ultradev. Follow the instructions for installing Tomcat, Ultradev, and the extension and then it is relatively easy to make a connection to a database with JSP code (in fact, Ultradev makes it similar to other models, such as ASP, CFML and PHP (via the phAKT extension). Once you create a connection, you can dissect the code and correspond the lines of code to how it makes a database connection (in fact, I use it to cross compare making a database connection through mySQL-PHP, mySQL-ASP, and mySQL-CFML as well)...they all essentially do the same fundamental tasks with very similar looking lines of code..
I realize you installed JRun, but from personal experience, its not that easy (its doable, but you might want to learn from something that you recognize, i.e from your PHP background) hope that helps... Edward Apostol developer, instructor - E-Commerce, New Media & Wireless @ Ryerson University Toronto, ON Canada --- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] alt e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: (416) 820-3533 -----Original Message----- From: Benj Arriola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: October 29, 2001 10:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: JSP newbie needs to run MySQL-JDBC. Hello Everyone, I need to run MySQL using JSP. I am a JSP newbie, actually a Java newbie too. I am more of a PHP/MySQL guy. I have successfully installed Allaire JRun 3.0 on Win98 using PWS. JRun has an application management console and I cannot seem to run MySQL. I am totally unfamiliar with how JRun, JDBC and MM.MySQL runs and the error message I get is: The following error occurred while testing the data source connection Communication link failure: java.io.EOFException I will enumerate everything I have done to see where I have gone wrong: 1. I am on a LAN and my IP address is 192.186.0.2. So on PWS, my localhost is basically 192.168.0.2. Everything is working fine with PWS and could use it with PHP and MySQL, thus I know MySQL is working fine too. 2. I installed Allaire JRun and everything is working fine with regards to running JSP pages. 3. I have read in the book, core JSP, that there are some JSP engines that doesn't use the classpath and uses it's own classpath, thus I added this on the Java Settings of the Default Server under Classpath. Prior to this, copied the org directory of the extracted files in mm.mysql-2.0.6.1.jar..jar to c:\progra~1\mm.sql in the Windows 98 directory structure. So my classpaths in JRun looks like this: {jrun.rootdir}/servers/lib {jrun.server.rootdir}/lib {jrun.rootdir}/../../mm.mysql Where all Jrun files are at c:\progra~1\allaire\jrun I got mm.mysql-2.0.6.1.jar..jar from SourceForge.com as my MySQL JDBC driver. 4. After doing this, I went to the JDBC Data Sources of the Default Server of JRun Application Management Console. And I added a new entry with the following: Name: MySQL Display Name: MySQL Driver: org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver URL: jdbc:mysql://192.168.0.2:80/studiosusa?user=root&password=axnolnms Description: Studios USA database Pooling: Yes Timeout: 30 Minutes Interval: 30 Seconds Username: root Password: axnolnms Vendor Argument: <blank, I placed nothing.> Btw, before doing this, I already created a database named studiosusa and the username and password to my MySQL is root and axnolnms. 5. I started running the MySQL engine whose version is 3.22.21. 6. I clicked on the "Test" button on Allaire JRun's JDBC settings and that's when I got the error: The following error occurred while testing the data source connection Communication link failure: java.io.EOFException Now, where did I go wrong? And how do I run MySQL on the JSP engine Allaire JRun 3.0? I don't know if this is a MM.MySQL problem. Benj Arriola [EMAIL PROTECTED] +63 (917)-831-8345 Action Online Co. Ltd. www.action.com.ph +63 (2)-417-3629 +63 (2)-417-5107 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html" before posting. To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the List-Unsubscribe header of this message. If you cannot see it, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php