Re: Why tomcat 6.0.18 looks for MySQL JDBC driver to be placed in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder?

2009-02-04 Thread peterramesh
? In that case the datasource exists outside your app. Cheers, Kees de Kooter http://www.boplicity.net On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 13:06, peterramesh ramesh.ramas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On reading Tomcat help doc http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html, it recommends

Re: Why tomcat 6.0.18 looks for MySQL JDBC driver to be placed in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder?

2009-02-04 Thread peterramesh
Hi Gregor, Why should your webapps require different versions of the same JDBC-driver? Do you have different instance of MySQL running? If not, IMHO that doesn't make any sense at all. Thanks for your reply, this make me understood that Tomcat server just need a JDBC driver (single version) for

Why tomcat 6.0.18 looks for MySQL JDBC driver to be placed in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder?

2009-02-02 Thread peterramesh
Hi, On reading Tomcat help doc http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html, it recommends to place the MySQL JDBC driver in both places (CATALINA_HOME/lib and WEB-INF/lib folder of the app). If I haven't placed in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder, my app is failing with driver