Mark Thomas schrieb am 23.11.2008 um 11:25:43 (+0000): > Iñigo Mediavilla Saiz wrote: > > [Tomcat 6] When I try to access to a Database through the connector > > it fails if I leave it inside WEB-INF\lib, but everything works if I > > copy the jar in the lib folder of the apache distribution. Is there > > any other way to let a web app access to a lib without having to > > copy the jar in apache\lib? > > You can't use Tomcat's built in (DBCP based) connection pooling > without placing the JDBC driver jar in CATALINA_HOME/lib.
You can, via conf/catalina.properties, as explained in my other post on this thread. But it is not documented very well. > To do what you want, you need to include your own copy of DBCP with > your web app and do all the pool configuration in your web app. I wonder if there is a scenario in which this would make sense? And wouldn't more memory be required for 5 web apps all loading the same classes redundantly instead of relying on the container to do it once instead? Michael Ludwig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
