Hi,

I recently upgraded my struts setup to the 1.1 release version.
Now I find that the data source used by my application to
connect to the database no longer works:

  <data-sources>
    <data-source key="db.user">
      <set-property property="url"
                                     
value="jdbc:oracle:thin:user/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1521:milk"/>
      <set-property property="autoCommit"          value="false"/>
      <set-property property="description"         value="Taco User
Account"/>
      <!-- set-property property="driverClass"           
value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"/ -->
                        <set-property property="driverClass"        
value="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleConnectionPoolDataSource" />
      <set-property property="maxCount"            value="5"/>
      <set-property property="minCount"            value="2"/>
    </data-source>
  </data-sources>

If left like this, the container (tomcat) fails to start with
the exception:

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:258)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:255)
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
        at
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.applicationClass(RequestUtils.java:163)
        at
org.apache.struts.util.RequestUtils.applicationInstance(RequestUtils.java:187)
        at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModuleDataSources(ActionServlet.java:813)
        at
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:389)
        at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(Unknown
Source)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(Unknown Source)


I've tried adding type="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleConnectionPoolDataSource"
to the data source element. This causes the following exception:

java.sql.SQLException: Invalid Oracle URL specified:
OracleDataSource.makeURL
        at
oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134)
        at
oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179)
        at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.check_error(DBError.java:1130)
        at
oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource.makeURL(OracleDataSource.java:966)
        at
oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource.getConnection(OracleDataSource.java:134)
        at
oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource.getConnection(OracleDataSource.java:108)
        at
taco.struts.GetCourseWorkAction.execute(GetCourseWorkAction.java:39)
        at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:449)
        at
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:264)

I've tried giving the URL without the username/password and setting them
in properties. Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions would be very much
appreciated. As I said, all this worked before upgrading the struts
jars.

Richard


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