Thanks for telling me about your issue. I experimented unsuccessfully with different locations for the jar files in Tomcat 6.
Glassfish v2 is now stable. I was able to use that without running into the JNDI problems that I had with Tomcat 6. Paul Anderson-12 wrote: > > Hi, > I had a problem before with this upgrade scenario using the Oracle > drivers, and asked the list. I was asked if the JAR was in > $CATALINA_HOME/lib - it was - no further ideas. > I have never had a problem before with JDK 4 or 5 on TC5.5, just with > JDK6 and TC6, so I temporarily abandoned my upgrade. > I only had the problem with *cross-context* webapp invocations, in this > case via Liferay's WAR. Maybe that's significant. If I used a JSP for > JNDI lookup and requested the page directly, with the DBCP kit in > WEB-INF/lib, all was OK. > Here's my message again: > > When doing cross-context invocations of a portlet in Liferay that > references container-managed Datasources by JNDI, I get:- > > Cannot load JDBC driver class 'oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver' > > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver > > The driver JAR was in <SERVER>/lib. ($CATALINA_HOME/lib) > > When I put dbcp, commons-pool and the driver JAR in the portlet WAR file > and create the Datasource myself, no problem. > > When looking up the container Datasource directly from a JSP (no > cross-context webapp invocation), no problem. > > I tried upgrading to a later JDK 6 Oracle 11i driver, but no luck, the > problem was not specific to Oracle's driver version. > > Other people have had classloading problems too, and said it's a bug in > TC6 with use of Class.forName() > > So I stuck with TC5.5 on JDK 5 for the moment - the problem's blocking > our upgrade path. > > Is this a known fault with TC6 that will be fixed? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tomcat-5.5.25--%3E-6.0.14-upgrade-problem-tf4525323.html#a13167197 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]