And you are sure your test with the client software was via TCP, not some other piped/ODBC connection scheme? I'm guessing this is a Windows system. Have you checked your firewall for allowing the connections? Also try using TCPMon from sysinternals.org to see what's happening with connections to the database. It's good at showing net connection on a Windows box in real time.

--David

Aynalem, Seblewengel (Trawick) wrote:

Thanks David.  I am able to connect to SQL Server 2000. Actually Tomcat 5.5.17 
and SQL Server 2000 is on the same machine that I am working on. Could there be 
any other cause for this error:

org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create 
PoolableConnectionFactory (The TCP/IP connection to the host  has failed. 
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect)

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:21 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot
create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'


Well.... this is supposed to be an "SQL Server 2000" database server. Use it's client tool to connect to the database. If successful, your server is running. I'm not familiar with the product, but if you can find it in the preferences, make sure you connect via TCP just like tomcat would.

--David

Aynalem, Seblewengel (Trawick) wrote:

Sorry to ask this... how do you verify server connection independently.  This 
is my first time configuring doing database connection. Thanks a lot,

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:49 PM
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Subject: Re: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot
create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'


Hmmm.... connection refused. Is your server listening for connections at jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433 ? Can you verify it independently?

--David



Aynalem, Seblewengel (Trawick) wrote:



Thanks a lot... I do need to have a space in context.xml file.  That solved the 
problem with xml syntax.  I now seem to have problem with database connection.  
Here is the code I use to connect...

InitialContext ic=null;

DataSource ds=null;

Connection conn = null;

try {
   // testing
        ic = new InitialContext();
   ds = (DataSource)ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/sqlserver");
   conn = ds.getConnection();
   } catch (Exception e) {
   StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
   e.printStackTrace(new PrintWriter(sw, true));
   lastError = sw.toString();
        System.out.println(lastError);
        return false;
 }

And the error I get is this...

lasterror org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (The TCP/IP connection to the host has failed. java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:855) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:540) at ISOTracking.SessionBean.login(SessionBean.java:217) at org.apache.jsp.ISOTracking.LoginAction_jsp._jspService(LoginAction_jsp.java:57) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:332) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host has failed. java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException.makeFromDriverError(Unknown Source) at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(Unknown Source) at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(Unknown Source) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:37) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.PoolableConnectionFactory.makeObject(PoolableConnectionFactory.java:290) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.validateConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:877) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:851) ... 23 more error Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (The TCP/IP connection to the host has failed. java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect)
-----Original Message-----
From: Saha Rabindra N [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:21 PM
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Subject: RE: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot
create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'


You could open your context.xml file using IE browser and that will tell you 
the syntax problem, if any.



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create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'


Hi Filip:

I checked it... what is it missing?  Many thanks your help.

-----Original Message-----
From: Filip Hanik - Dev Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 3:12 PM
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Subject: Re: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot
create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'


looks like your context XML file is not a valid XML format

Filip


Aynalem, Seblewengel (Trawick) wrote:


Yes I do have SQL JDBC driver in common/lib as sqljdbc.jar and did drop 
<ResourceLink.../> from context.xml file.  Another error comes ups as follows:

Jul 31, 2006 3:01:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener 
lifecycleEvent
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in 
production environments was not found on the java.library.path: 
C:\Java\jdk1.5.0_07\bin;.;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Program
 Files\Common Files\Roxio 
Shared\DLLShared;C:\Java\jdk1.5.0_07\bin;%CATALINA_BASE%\bin;C:\Program 
Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:05 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:05 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1732 ms
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.17
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:05 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:08 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester fatalError
SEVERE: Parse Fatal Error at line 11 column 79: Element type "Resource" must be followed by either 
attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "Resource" must be followed by either attribute 
specifications, ">" or "/>".
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:236)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:215)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:386)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:316)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1438)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:845)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1693)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:368)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:834)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:764)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:148)
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1242)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1561)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processContextConfig(ContextConfig.java:781)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.contextConfig(ContextConfig.java:721)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:977)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:278)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.init(StandardContext.java:5130)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3945)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:904)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:867)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:474)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:08 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig 
processContextConfig
SEVERE: Parse error in default web.xml
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "Resource" must be followed by either attribute 
specifications, ">" or "/>".
        at 
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1269)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1561)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processContextConfig(ContextConfig.java:781)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.contextConfig(ContextConfig.java:721)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:977)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:278)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.init(StandardContext.java:5130)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3945)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:759)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:739)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:524)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:904)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:867)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:474)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1122)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:310)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1021)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:718)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1013)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:442)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:450)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:709)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:551)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
        at 
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:294)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:432)
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:08 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig 
processContextConfig
SEVERE: Occurred at line 11 column 79
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:08 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start
SEVERE: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s)
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:08 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error getConfigured
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:08 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/ISOTrackingTest] startup failed due to previous errors
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:09 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:10 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:10 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/70  config=null
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:10 PM org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreLoader load
INFO: Find registry server-registry.xml at classpath resource
Jul 31, 2006 3:01:10 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 5147 ms

-----Original Message-----
From: David Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:53 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot
create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'


Is your SQL JDBC driver in common/lib? It has to be there for tomcat to set it up as a resource.

Also drop the <ResourceLink.../> tag from your context definition. Not needed when the resource is defined inside the <Context...> tag and may confuse tomcat.

--David

Aynalem, Seblewengel (Trawick) wrote:


Hi there:
I am using tomcat 5.5.17 and SQL Server 2000 database with SQL Server 2005 JDBC 
Driver.  OS is Windows XP professional.  I have configured web.xml in WEB-INF 
directory and context.xml in META-INF directory of my application. Both are 
attached below with this email. I have a login.jsp page that asks for username 
and password... and when submit is hit, it gives the following error.
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' I tried to google and tried the suggestion given but any of them doesn't seem to work. Is there anything wrong with my configuration? PLEASE HELP...it is higly appreciated. If something is not clear, please get back to me. Thank you so much.
context.xml file looks like this...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context debug="0" displayName="ISOTracking" 
docBase="C:\Java\TomcatTestServer\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\webapps\ISOTrackingTest" path="/ISOTracking" 
reloadable="true">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="ISOTRackingTest_Log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/>
        <!-- Define a database connection pool for SQL SERVER 2000 -->
        <Resource name="jdbc/sqlserver" auth="Container" 
factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory" type="javax.sql.DataSource" 
driverClassName="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
        url="jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433" username="xxx" password="xxx"maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" 
maxWait="10000" removeAbandoned="true" removeAbandonedTimeout="60" logAbandoned="true"/>
        <ResourceLink name="jdbc/sqlserver" type="javax.sql.DataSource" 
global="jdbc/sqlserver"/>
</Context>
web.xml looks like this...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" 
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";>
<web-app>
<display-name>ISOTracking</display-name>
<description>
 Welcome TO ISO Tracking Application
</description>
<!-- JSPC servlet mappings start -->
<servlet>
    <servlet-name>ISOTracking.Login_jsp</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>ISOTracking.Login_jsp</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>ISOTracking.Login_jsp</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/Login.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<session-config>
 <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
</session-config>
<!-- JSPC servlet mappings end -->
        <resource-ref>
                <res-ref-name>jdbc/sqlserver</res-ref-name>
                <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
                <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
        </resource-ref>
</web-app>




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