aha, seem to be getting somewhere,
changed server_name from devserver to localhost as you suggested,
<value>jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost:1433/neotest?autoReconnect=true</value>
so it seems it wanted to grab a poolable connection but the login failed.
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jndi connection
Details :
date / time : Thu Nov 18 15:21:31 GMT 2004
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org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory, cause:
java.sql.SQLException: Cannot open database requested in login 'neotest?autoReconnect=true'. Login fails.
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.SQLDiagnostic.addDiagnostic(SQLDiagnostic.java:367)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.TdsCore.tdsErrorToken(TdsCore.java:2217)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.TdsCore.nextToken(TdsCore.java:1696)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.TdsCore.login(TdsCore.java:494)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC2.<init>(ConnectionJDBC2.java:276)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.ConnectionJDBC3.<init>(ConnectionJDBC3.java:50)
at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver.connect(Driver.java:145)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:82)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolableConnectionFactory.makeObject(PoolableConnectionFactory.java:300)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.validateConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:838)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:821)
at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:518)
at com.leocate.database.NeoTestConnection.connectToDsn(NeoTestConnection.java:38)
at com.leocate.trends.TrendsContentHandler.endDocument(TrendsContentHandler.java:64)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.endEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.endEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipSpaces(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.leocate.trends.RegisterTrendsContentHandler.parseXmlSrc(RegisterTrendsContentHandler.java:70)
at com.leocate.spreadSheets.SpreadSheetContentHandler.endDocument(SpreadSheetContentHandler.java:70)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.endEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityManager.endEntity(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.load(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.skipSpaces(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.leocate.spreadSheets.ContentHandlerPublishingBean.parseXmlSrc(ContentHandlerPublishingBean.java:69)
at com.leocate.spreadSheets.ExcelPublishingService.createSpreadSheet(ExcelPublishingService.java:34)
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.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.invokeMethod(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.providers.java.RPCProvider.processMessage(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.providers.java.JavaProvider.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.strategies.InvocationStrategy.visit(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.doVisiting(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.SimpleChain.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(Unknown Source)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:256)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2422)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:171)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:163)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:199)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:828)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:700)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:584)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
