See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/deployer-howto.html#A%20word%20on%20Contexts
Tomcat makes a copy of your META-INF/context.xml when the application is deployed, and will not see changes to that file unless you fully undeploy and redeploy your application. 2009/7/19 Lucas Vickers <lucasvick...@gmail.com>: > woops, email was sent prematurely > > anyway, the full email: > > META-INF/context.xml : > > <Resource > name="jdbc/tabscorp_tabsdb" > auth="Container" > type="javax.sql.DataSource" > maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" > username="mylogin" password="mypass" > driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" > logAbandoned="true" removeAbandoned="true" > removeAbandonedTimeout="60" > url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mydb?autoReconnect=true"/> > > WEB-INF/web.xml : > > <resource-ref> > <description>TABS DB Connection</description> > <res-ref-name>jdbc/tabscorp_tabsdb</res-ref-name> > <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> > <res-auth>Container</res-auth> > </resource-ref> > > > Java Code: > > InitialContext cxt = new InitialContext(); > if ( cxt == null ) { > throw new Exception("InitialContext is NULL"); > } > > DataSource ds = (DataSource) cxt.lookup( > "java:/comp/env/jdbc/tabscorp_tabsdb" ); > if ( ds == null ) { > throw new Exception("Data source not found"); > } > > Connection conn = ds.getConnection(); > if ( conn == null) { > throw new Exception("Connection is null"); > } > > stmt = connection.createStatement(); > > > I am getting a conn == null , but no other information, so I am having > trouble debugging. > suggestions? > > thanks > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org