I'm trying to define a JNDI resource for a datasource. The Tomcat
documentation lists several different places that you can define a
Context element. I don't want to define it in my app's web.xml and I
don't want to modify tomcat config files. I want to define a companion
file for my app, but I'm having a hard time understanding the
documentation. It says the following, is one place you can define a
Context element:
in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_HOME/
conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the file (less
the .xml) extension will be used as the context path. Multi-level
context paths may be defined using #, e.g.context#path.xml.
My web app is in a war called mytest.war, which I deployed to
$CATALINA_HOME/webapps. My web.xml has the following elements:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>mytest</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>mytest</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
I placed a file named mytest.xml in $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/
localhost/mytest.xml. mytest.xml contains the following:
<Context path="/mytest" docBase="mytest"
debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
<Resource name="jdbc/mytest" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
username="javauser" password="javadude"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mytest?
autoReconnect=true"/>
</Context>
My Context defined this way is not loaded. I've checked using the
Tomcat Manager and there is no JNDI resource loaded. What am I doing
wrong?
Thanks,
Michael-
