Excellent Ted thanks! I'll tuck this away in a safe place. Thank You!
Eddie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Husted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [Off Topic] Poolman Setup > Try > > /lib/poolman.jar > /lib/log4j.jar > /lib/jdbc2_0-stdext.jar > > /classes/poolman.xml > > in poolman.xml > > <dbname>WHATEVER</dbname> > <jndiName>WHATEVER</jndiName> > <driver>WHATEVER</driver> > <url>WHATEVER</url> > <username>WHATEVER</username> > <password>WHATEVER</password> > > <logFile>/var/applogs/poolman.log</logFile> > > in your code > > Datasource datasource = PoolMan.findDataSource(WHATEVER); > > > and create a /var/applogs (or \var\applogs) directory. > > Be careful that a clean build doesn't whack your poolman.xml. If you're > using Ant, put it with your Java source files and > > <!-- Copy any configuration files --> > <copy todir="classes" includeEmptyDirs="no"> > <fileset dir="src/java"> > <patternset> > <include name="*.xml"/> > </patternset> > </fileset> > </copy> > > -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY US > -- Developing Java Web Applications with Struts > -- Tel: +1 585 737-3463 > -- Web: http://husted.com/about/services > > > Eddie Bush wrote: > > > > I've done everything (I think) that poolman requires in order to function, and yet it does not. After placing only the required jars into my \lib folder, and having no success with Poolman starting, I threw all of them in. It still doesn't work. > > > > I wasn't at all sure, from the documentation, where I should poke the poolman.xml file. Initially I had it in my WEB-INF directory. Then, I copied it to the \lib directory. Still no luck. > > > > Every time Poolman is started, I get the same exact error - a null pointer exception. This occurs when poolman is calling parseXML from loadConfiguration. The relevant piece of the stacktrace is: > > > > java.lang.NullPointerException > > at com.codestudio.management.PoolManConfiguration.parseXML (PoolManConfiguration.java:121) > > at com.codestudio.management.PoolManConfiguration.loadConfiguration (PoolManConfiguration.java:75) > > at com.codestudio.management.PoolManBootstrap.<init> (PoolManBootstrap.java:61) > > at com.codestudio.management.PoolManBootstrap.<init> (PoolManBootstrap.java:54) > > at com.codestudio.sql.PoolMan.start (PoolMan.java:97) > > > > The rest of the stacktrace goes into my servlet - which worked fine before I tried to kick off Poolman in it's init method. > > > > I have also tried not calling start, but, instead, just allowing Poolman to do it's 'lazy' initialization - same exact result. > > > > I would be most appreciative if someone out there could give me a 'heads up'. > > > > I'm running Tomcat 4.0.1 (I can't see why that would matter) and JDK 1.3. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Eddie > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
