Check your database is up before trying to connect to it. If it is and you can ping the database from your application server box, then check your spelling in the data source definition.
Chris McCormack -----Original Message----- From: Rajat Pandit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 March 2004 11:01 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: db error Hello All, i am trying to connect a oracle database, and i get this stack trace, can someone please tell me what is wrong with it. <!-- stack trace --> javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Initializing application data source org.apache.struts.action.DATA_SOURCE at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModuleDataSources(ActionServlet.java:1091) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:472) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:934) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:3420) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3608) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:821) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:257) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:772) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:569) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:411) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:879) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:368) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1196) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:497) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2189) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203) <!-- end of stack trace --> <--- data sources --> <data-sources> <!-- <data-source type="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"> --> <data-source> <set-property property="driverClassName" value="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver" /> <set-property property="url" value="jdbc:oracle:thin:oci8:1521:ora9i" /> <set-property property="username" value="*******" /> <set-property property="password" value="*******" /> <set-property property="autoCommit" value="true" /> <set-property property="maxCount" value="4" /> <set-property property="minCount" value="2" /> <set-property property="validationQuery" value="SELECT 1+1 from dual" /> </data-source> </data-sources> <-- code --> ServletContext context = servlet.getServletContext(); DataSource ds = (DataSource) context.getAttribute(Action.DATA_SOURCE_KEY); //DataSource ds = getDataSource(req); try { conn = ds.getConnection(); stmt = conn.createStatement(); rs = stmt.executeQuery("Select tname, tabtype from tab"); if (!rs.wasNull()) { /** * some records where returned */ System.err.println("=================="); while (rs.next()) { System.err.println("Table Name: " + rs.getString(1)); System.err.println("TabType: " + rs.getString(2)); System.err.println("--"); } System.err.println("=================="); } } catch (SQLException e) { System.err.println("==> Error in getting the connection: " + e.getMessage()); <---end of code --> -- Rajat Pandit | [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Analyst Manchitra Services Pvt. 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