I'm answering my own question on this. I found my solution here:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=102225547106556&w=2
The one thing I added was a slightly different Java code snippet since I
return a Connection rather than grab the DataSource and use the connection
right there:
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import javax.naming.NamingException;
.....
.....
......
public static Connection getConnection() throws SQLException {
DataSource ds = null;
try {
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
if (ctx == null) throw new SQLException("No Context available
for DataSource...can't get connection");
ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/utasklistDB");
if (ds == null) throw new SQLException("No DataSource
available for Connection");
System.out.println("The Datasource is: " + ds);
}
catch (NamingException ne) {
throw new SQLException("JNDI Lookup Failed: " + ne.getMessage());
}
return ds.getConnection();
}
There you go. The instructions provided by Les Hughes at the link above
and the code I added here worked perfectly for me. Thanks to Les for
providing this info!
Jake
At 06:13 PM 5/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I've got a question about setting up a connection pool using DBCP.
>Back when I was testing the nightly build from 20020404, I could swear
>I was getting back a PooledDataSource. Now with todays build
>(20020523), I am getting back a BasicDatasource.
>
>The code that I have looks like:
>
> DataSource ds = null;
> try {
> Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
> Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
> if (envCtx!=null) {
> ds = (DataSource)envCtx.lookup("jdbc/utasklistDB");
> System.out.println("The Datasource is: " + ds);
> }
> }
> catch (NamingException ne) {
> System.out.println("JNDI Lookup Failed: " + ne.getMessage());
> }
> return ds.getConnection();
>
>What prints out on that first println is:
>The Datasource is: org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource@22220f
>
>Then, when I attempt to return the connection, I end up getting the
>following error:
>
>java.lang.NullPointerException
> at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:380)
> at
> org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(Unknown
> Source)
> at
>
>com.syntegra.unilever.tasklist.data.ConnectionManager.getConnection(ConnectionManager.java:73)
> at
> com.syntegra.unilever.tasklist.data.Manager.openConn(Manager.java:22)
> at
>
>com.syntegra.unilever.tasklist.data.UserManager.getUserByUsername(UserManager.java:201)
> at
>
>com.syntegra.unilever.tasklist.services.ValidationServices.validateUser(ValidationServices.java:91)
> at
>
>com.syntegra.unilever.tasklist.services.ValidationServices.validateUser(ValidationServices.java:69)
> at
>
>com.syntegra.unilever.tasklist.MasterEventGateway$LocalRequestHandler.handleControlEvent(MasterEventGateway.java:80)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.DefaultBaseEventListener.handleEvent(DefaultBaseEventListener.java:64)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.DefaultEventDispatcher.notifyListeners(DefaultEventDispatcher.java:381)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.DefaultEventDispatcher.dispatch(DefaultEventDispatcher.java:183)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.DefaultEventDispatcher.dispatchEvent(DefaultEventDispatcher.java:103)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.DefaultEventBroker.dispatchEvent(DefaultEventBroker.java:488)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.ApplicationGateway.handleDefaultExt(ApplicationGateway.java:413)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.ApplicationGateway.handleDefault(ApplicationGateway.java:239)
> at
>
>org.enhydra.barracuda.core.event.ApplicationGateway.doGet(ApplicationGateway.java:632)
> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
> at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Unknown
> Source)
> at
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(Unknown
> Source)
> at
>
>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(Unknown
>
> Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(Unknown
> Source)
> at
>
>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(Unknown
>
> Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at
>
>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(Unknown
>
> Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(Unknown
> Source)
> at
>
>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(Unknown
>
> Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at
>
>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(Unknown
>
> Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(Unknown
> Source)
> at
>
>org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(Unknown
>
> Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Processor.process(Ajp13Processor.java:458)
> at org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Processor.run(Ajp13Processor.java:551)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)
>
>
>So...
>
>First, should BasicDataSource rather than PooledDataSource be
>returned? If so, why? How do I utilize a database pool?
>
>Second, why the null pointer at ds.getConnection()? I wasn't getting
>that before in my previous nightly build, although I was having other
>issues where it wasn't working, which I won't get into here, but
>ds.getConnection() did return a
>Connection object rather than throw a null pointer exception.
>
>Any hints as to what is up with this? I realize that this is alpha
>software, but I'd like to know if I'm even on the right track or if
>something in the design has changed...and maybe I should be using DBCP
>some different way than I am now???
>
>Jake
>
>
>--
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> Jacob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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