What you realy need ?
- You need to make a connection => commit => disconnect or
- Put the connection in the "Struts Connection Pool" ?
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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:23 PM
Subject: Any workaround for getConnection("username", "password")?
> In an attempt to implement security on our web servers, I've tried to
> remove the username and password on the struts-config.xml datasource tag.
> I've done this to retrieve this information from a remote location not
> located on the actual web server. The problem with this, as many of you
> probably know is that the struts framework does not yet support the
> getConnection("user","pass") in its genericDataSource implementation. I
> was wondering if any of you have a workaround for this instance?
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> I have gotten tomcat to load the datasource without a username and
> password by setting my minCount="0". The reason this works is pretty
> obvious and that's because tomcat doesn't make an initial connection to
> the database.
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> I have a feeling that I can add the username and password now that tomcat
> is loaded but am a little unsure of how to accomplish this.
>
> Thanks
> Dan Jimenez
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