Hello,
I'm trying to set up connection pooling for Tomcat 5.5 but it doesn't work. When I start Tomcat, it shows in the Catalina log this: SEVERE: Exception loading sessions from persistent storage java.io.WriteAbortedException: writing aborted; java.io.NotSerializableException: javax.naming.InitialContext at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.readObject(StandardSession.java: 1402) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.readObjectData(StandardSession.j ava:931) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.doLoad(StandardManager.java:394) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.load(StandardManager.java:321) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.start(StandardManager.java:637) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.setManager(ContainerBase.java:432) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4160) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:7 60) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:740) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:544) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:926) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:889 ) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:492) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1022) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:736) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1014) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:700) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:552) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) Caused by: java.io.NotSerializableException: javax.naming.InitialContext at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(Unknown Source) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(Unknown Source) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.writeObject(StandardSession.java :1478) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.writeObjectData(StandardSession. java:948) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.doUnload(StandardManager.java:51 7) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.unload(StandardManager.java:463) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardManager.stop(StandardManager.java:667) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.stop(StandardContext.java:4360) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.removeChild(ContainerBase.java:893) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.undeployApps(HostConfig.java:1191) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.stop(HostConfig.java:1162) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:313) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.stop(ContainerBase.java:1055) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.stop(ContainerBase.java:1067) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.stop(StandardEngine.java:448) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.stop(StandardService.java:510) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.stop(StandardServer.java:734) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.stop(Catalina.java:602) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina$CatalinaShutdownHook.run(Catalina.java: 645) My java code shows the error message that it "Cannot create JDBC driver of class 'sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver'" for my ODBC alias. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mike