One more thing and i may have missed it in your note: Did you say you placed mysql's jar file in the common\lib directory ?
John Cherouvim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello I've been trying to setup a mysql connection pool using JNDI as shown in http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html But no luck. I never get to see the datasource registered Tomcat Administration Tool. I've included in server.xml the following lines somewhere inside the .. factory org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory driverClassName com.mysql.jdbc.Driver url jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/dea?autoReconnect=true username myusername password mypassword maxActive 20 maxIdle 10 maxWait 40 I have Tomcat/5.0.28 And the following files in common\lib mysql-connector-java-3.1.10-bin.jar commons-collections-3.1.jar commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar commons-pool-1.2.jar * *What I get in tomcat\logs\stdout.log is: NotifyUtil::java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:295) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:161) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:148) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:425) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:375) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:139) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:366) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:582) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(HttpClient.java:292) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.(HttpClient.java:253) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:321) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:306) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:301) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java:469) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection.java:460) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:516) at org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.NotifyUtil$RecordSender.run(NotifyUtil.java:237) What did I miss? I've even tried setting up the JNDI in the conf\Catalina\localhost\myapp.xml And also tried instead of I also tried all that with the org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver Regards, I. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Yahoo! for Good Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.