Hello Tomcat Users,
up until recently it was my firm belief that the ONLY way to get database
connection pooling (DBCP) working was to place the JDBC driver JARS in
${CATALINA_HOME}/common/lib and define the DBCP
resouce in the context (my preference is for META-INF/context.xml in the
WAR).
That was until I tried to place both the commons-dbcp-*.jar and my JDBC
driver jar in
my WAR under WEB-INF/lib. If I make sure to specify the factory attribute in
my context.xml to
be "org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory", lo and behold it works!
I can finally
deploy all my dependencies in my WAR. When you think of how the classpath
hierarchy works
in a web app it's no surprise really.
Question: is there any downside to this approach?
I am asking because I hadn't come across this as a possibility anywhere, so
I am wondering...
I would be very greatful of any feedback and/or suggestions.
Regards,
Florian
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