----------------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:00:48 -0400
> From: ch...@christopherschultz.net
> To: users@tomcat.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Error deploying web application
>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA256
>
> Mark,
>
> On 6/25/13 10:32 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> On 25/06/2013 15:01, Nickalaus A Painter wrote:
>>> Thank you very much for your quick response! Here are the
>>> previous error messages:
>>
>> It would have been helpful to include all the error messages the
>> first time around. I then wouldn't have had to waste time working
>> through the code checking that there should have been an error
>> message and telling you what to look for.
>
> Someone is cranky, today. :p
>
>>> Also, for completeness, here is MyApp.xml:
>>
>> And there we have the problem.
>>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE Context>
>>> <application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee";
>>> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>>> xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd
>>> http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_5.xsd"; version="2.5">
>>
>> WTF? Where does it suggest that this is valid for a context.xml
>> file?
>
> Honestly, for a novice user, it is not entirely clear what the
> difference is between a "deployment descriptor" (i.e. web.xml) and a
> "context descriptor" (i.e. context.xml). I know I sometimes call
> context.xml a "deployment descriptor" when I'm not being careful.
>
> The document element should have been a clue (the XML is a complete
> mess: DOCTYPE is "Context", but then the document element is
> <application>, schema dictates that the document element should be
> web-app, etc.) but it's easy to get confused.
>
> On top of that, there is no schema available for <Context> so maybe OP
> thought he'd use the next-best thing...
>
>>> <Resource name="jdbc/dbconn" auth="Container"
>>> type="javax.sql.DataSource"
>>> driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
>>> url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydatabase" username="root"
>>> password="root" maxActive="50" maxIdle="15" maxWait="-1"/>
>>
>> I really, really hope those aren't the real values. You should
>> never connect to a database as root, even for development.
>
> +1
>
> A few additional thoughts:
>
> 1. maxActive=50 is quite a lot. I run a medium-traffic site and we
> have maxActive=20 with an alert whenever active> 10.
>
> 2. maxWait=-1 is a terrible idea: you can easily tie-up all your
> request-processing threads waiting for database connections if
> something goes wrong. You won't even be able to tell users that
> something is wrong. Even if you make this something outrageous like 60
> seconds, you should not set it to -1 for "infinite wait".
>
> - -chris
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin)
> Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org
> Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/
>
> iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRybCgAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYPTMQAKpdCnZoKAK3cnAIRhKARSnK
> M+Ri/0yErfLYJ9Kp7l0sDdJjW2hnrfmf9sDjmx1QNiM0t0WrMfZb6/tNURgMYgKX
> Ew0PtUZtA0+eBP4dZZeMWgti2zc2KraC1B3Vu8X1Kn8z3/od749QKOGAeMXSIGPm
> 7RYYGe7dmX4v0/CL5c5QBcD68Lea57R0dTmCEeGJ8PICG7tmfRBIuvpDpxD4BqJk
> UQi5jC9O9jXRZdA16Pyoqdh1oO/dTjL8MsRvLJDZrN25UCi+iocxmVZSegJdRDLL
> l0JJ89vQu2rrDo6REs3S01qinpxBiCa7TtVsUcemWVAqIG9aSUZglIzdTEN6gpSo
> VCJu67j/vmue+BRYi4mYFepTbecpv5p5YZvdTsWuwwLcnxqm+lDts/D8mKh3Nb4E
> 8AkCkM5W9WFs5mrczJBAo2kEFqqoDKR91c8Mx/5J0uqWnO3AnlUmK+ALUlmEHJHS
> x6NSP4+NTlfmiRbrq09wwKY/+F735Sufknmyo9Ojqejl+d4yvuU2blCU/mr9biXq
> AlA6cdNS8wG9VNhe4/XC4yDTk2DrUW7vupk4+7dhEqsZGIZzMl0hRWsQpgXMwo3w
> HYHJaQYcj1CNCCnOIl+HY0qgh75lICFsoBKqBFzZTudG0G8iIYa0A4IKxMKn++0z
> sY1qBU8Bd25MKGEJMRrG
> =S/j2
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
>
