Catherine Jung wrote:
>
> Hi, one of my servlets needs to open a connection to a database, now, if I
> were accessing this database in a normal java program I'd need to have set
> an environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to it's native
> librarys. How can I do something similar in a servlet?
>
> It doesn't work just with the normal environment entries I would use for a
> plain java app, and it doesn't work using the following in my web.xml
> file. So can anyone enlighten me as to what I've done wrong/should be
> doing?
>
> <env-entry>
> <description>path to the objy librarys</description>
> <env-entry-name>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</env-entry-name>
> <env-entry-value>/opt/share/object5.2.3/solaris7/lib/</env-entry-value>
> <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type>
> </env-entry>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Catherine
Hello Cat,
Perhaps you can try to load the library during the init method of your
main servlet...
i.e.
----
init()
{
try
{
System.load.("/opt/share/object5.2.3/solaris7/lib/libwhatever.so");
}
catch( Exception e )
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
----
Just a suggestion...;-)
Cheers,
John Clark
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