The Craig has spoken. Thus shall it be. On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:31:07AM -0700, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > If you're running on a container that supports it (which means any J2EE > container plus Tomcat 4), using JNDI resources is the right way to deal > with this. Essentially, you declare a "resource reference" to a data > source in your web.xml file, and then configure the database access > details in your server's configuration file. > > The configuration process is container-specific -- here's the docs on > using Tomcat (which also includes programming examples for accessing the > data source): > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html > > Craig > > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Kirby Vandivort wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:37:10 -0500 > > From: Kirby Vandivort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Database access deployment question > > > > Hello, > > > > I have been reading up on accessing databases from within the struts > > framework, and I'm not totally sure of the best way to approach the > > issue of deployment. > > > > We package up a WAR file for distribution to end users, and I would > > like to be able to tell them to drop the WAR file in webapps and be > > done with it. (ie., not have to uncompress it). > > > > However, from what I can tell, setting up "clean" database access > > includes doing something like making a data-source entry and placing it > > in the web.xml in the WEB-INF directory of the deployed application. > > > > Since the properties for the database (username, password, etc) will be > > different for each end user, I can't apriori set values for this. > > > > So, what does everyone out there that has been down this road before do > > to solve this problem? I guess, really, this goes beyond simple > > database access. We also have a few other settings for our application > > that need to be set. > > > > CURRENTLY, we aren't using struts (pure servlets) and we have properties > > files that contain this information. But, we are currently requiring > > the user to unpack the WAR file and I would love to get away from this. > > > > Thanks for your help! > > > > -- > > > > Kirby Vandivort Theoretical Biophysics Group > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3051 Beckman Institute > > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~kvandivo/ University of Illinois > > Phone: (217) 244-5711 405 N. Mathews Ave > > Fax : (217) 244-6078 Urbana, IL 61801, USA > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >
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