Author: kkolinko Date: Wed Oct 19 11:42:03 2011 New Revision: 1186115 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1186115&view=rev Log: CTR: docs Merged revision r1186104 from tomcat/trunk: Rewrote the DriverManager section in jndi-datasource-examples-howto.xml.
Modified: tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/ (props changed) tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/webapps/docs/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.xml Propchange: tomcat/tc6.0.x/trunk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- svn:mergeinfo (original) +++ svn:mergeinfo Wed Oct 19 11:42:03 2011 @@ -1 +1 @@ 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href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/index.html?java/sql/DriverManager.html">service -provider</a> mechanism. However, the implementation is fundamentally broken in -all Java versions for a servlet container environment. -<code>java.sql.DriverManager</code> will only scan the first web application to -use it for JDBC drivers using the service provider mechanism. Any JDBC drivers -present in the web application or any parent class loader will be discovered -correctly (including those in $CATALINA_BASE/lib) but no further scans will be -performed for any other web applications. For example, if there are two web -applications each using a different JDBC driver packaged in WEB-INF/lib, the -service provider mechanism will only work for the first web application to use -DriverManager. The other web application will be required to register the Driver -manually. Given that web application start order is undefined, the service -provider mechanism can not be relied upon for JDBC Driver implementations -packaged in WEB-INF/lib. -</p> - -<p>The <code>java.sql.DriverManager</code> is also a frequent source of memory -leaks. Any Drivers registered with the DriverManager by a web application must -be deregistered when the web application stops. If the service provider -mechanism registers a JDBC driver, it will never deregister it. Tomcat will -attempt to automatically deregister and registered JDBC drivers discovered -when a web application stops. However, it is expected that applications do this -for themselves via a <code>ServletContextListener</code>. -</p> - -<p>There have been reports that the memory leak prevention code that deregisters -JDBC drivers can, in unusual circumstances, trigger a memory leak rather than -fix it. To prevent this, the <a href="config/listeners.html">JRE Memory Leak -Prevention Listener</a> includes protection for the DriverManager. This -protection is enabled by default. Note that a side-effect of enabling this -protection is that while any JDBC Driver implementations packaged with the JVM -or located in $CATALINA_BASE/lib will be correctly discovered by the service -provider mechanism, JDBC Driver implementations packaged in web applications -will not be discovered. It is therefore necessary for applications to manually -register (and deregister) and JDBC drivers they require that are packaged in the -WEB-INF/lib directory. Given the known issues with the service provider -implementation for DriverManager, most web applications will probably be doing -this already.</p> +provider</a> mechanism. This feature is that all the available JDBC drivers +that announce themselves by providing a <code>META-INF/services/java.sql.Driver</code> +file are automatically discovered, loaded and registered, +relieving you from the need to load the database driver explicitly before +you create a JDBC connection. +However, the implementation is fundamentally broken in all Java versions for +a servlet container environment. The problem is that +<code>java.sql.DriverManager</code> will scan for the drivers only once.</p> + +<p>The <a href="config/listeners.html">JRE Memory Leak Prevention Listener</a> +that is included with Apache Tomcat solves this by triggering the drivers scan +during Tomcat startup. This is enabled by default. It means that only +libraries visible to the listener such as the ones in +<code>$CATALINA_BASE/lib</code> will be scanned for database drivers. +If you are considering disabling this feature, note that +the scan would be triggered by the first web application that is +using JDBC, leading to failures when this web application is reloaded +and for other web applications that rely on this feature. +</p> + +<p>Thus, the web applications that have database drivers in their +<code>WEB-INF/lib</code> directory cannot rely on the service provider +mechanism and should register the drivers explicitly.</p> + +<p>The list of drivers in <code>java.sql.DriverManager</code> is also +a known source of memory leaks. Any Drivers registered +by a web application must be deregistered when the web application stops. +Tomcat will attempt to automatically discover and deregister any +JDBC drivers loaded by the web application class loader when the web +application stops. +However, it is expected that applications do this for themselves via +a <code>ServletContextListener</code>. +</p> </section> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org