Dave Ford wrote:

> I have developed a J2EE Web Application using a servlet engine that supports
> connection pooling using jndi lookups (as specified by j2ee spec). In other
> words, I have dozens of servlets and jsp pages that all make use of this
> syntax:
>
> Context ctx = new InitialContext();
> DataSource ds = ctx.lookup("jdbc/pool/MyDb");
> conn = ds.getConnection();
>
> Now I want to switch to Tomcat, but Tomcat does not support this mechinism.
> Is there any way to make Tomcat work with a j2ee complient jndi connection
> pool lookup?
>

Supporting this sort of JNDI context for <resource-ref> and <env-entry>
configuration elements is on the TODO list for Tomcat 4.0.  Code contributions
are welcome :-).

In the mean time, you might consider running inside a J2EE server that embeds
Tomcat as its servlet container, and also provides all the other J2EE
facilities.  One option is JBoss <http://www.jboss.org>.

>
> Dave
>

Craig McClanahan

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