OK, yes it turned out to be one of those "dumb" configuration errors -
BUT also a difference in how Tomcat 5.5.7 (or maybe is is Commons DBCP
1.2.1) behaves under Windows versus Linux.
I had camelcased the "username" property in the context.xml " We have been using Sun Java 1.4.2, Tomcat 5.0.19, M
Sorry to repost - but, except for some great suggestions from Shakeel, I
have not made much progress on this. To my way of thinking this seems
maddenly simple - either a config error or possibly bug. But what?
So my first place to start is to try and see where it is that the
userName property get