Hi Ron,
That is referring to a context configuration file. You *always* need to set up your DataSources through the proprietary server configuration. The stuff in the web.xml only defines the interface. For instance, if you set up DBCP specific stuff in the web.xml file, your app would be dependent on running under Tomcat and be incompatible with every other app server. JNDI is meant to provide a standard interface while allowing the vendor to provide a proprietary implementation. That way, you get to code to a standard and you get to pick the vendor who provides the best implementation (by your own definition). That provides for both standards *and* market competition. Neat, eh?
See the following for context configuration files:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment
Also, look at admin.xml and manager.xml in CATALINA_HOME/webapps for reference.
I addition, Craig R. McClanahan pointed out the following when deploying via the manager app:
<quote>
For the deploy command, simply include your context confgiuration file in
the WAR at "META-INF/context.xml".
In Tomcat 4.1, you can dynamically deploy a "context configuration file"
instead of, or along with your webapp. Such a file can contain the
<Context> element, and all nested subelements, from what you would
normally put in server.xml, so you can indeed dynamically deploy an app
with a custom realm.
</quote>
Jake
At 10:02 PM 12/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Evening A question to grow my knowledge:)On tomcat 4.1.12-LE-jdk14 deployment with java jsdk 1.4.1_01-b01 I have installed the two missing jar files from commons (dbcp and pool) and made the example from the documentation (/DBTest) work. Great work, well written and very clear. So my question. If I want to use DataSources I always need to change or add Contect (or defaultContext) in the conf/server.xml? According to the documentation I can define a Resource as: <Context ...> ... <Resource name="jdbc/EmployeeDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" description="Employees Database for HR Applications"/> ... </Context> in server.xml or as <resource-ref> <description>Employees Database for HR Applications</description> <res-ref-name>jdbc/EmployeeDB</res-ref-name> <res-ref-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-ref-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> int web.xml of an application that is deployed. But where to I put all the values named in the ResourceParams entries if I want to declare them from the web.xml file? Ron -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
