Of course I did mean .jar
>I have copied the DB2 jdbc driver file to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib (I
> copied it both as .zip and .tar as some web resources suggested tomcat
would
> only recognise it as .tar)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Nesbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:25 PM
Subject: Cannot Solve "jdbc is not bound is this Context" problem
> We have been trying for over a week to solve this problem. It doesn't help
> that we haven't used tomcat before, but our application works fine on
> WebSphere. So I guess that it some configuration that we are missing.
> We are trying to configure tomcat (4.1.24) to do a jndi lookup of a
> DataSource which is a db2 jdbc app driver.
>
> The Tomcat server.xml had a sample jdbc configuration which was modified
to
> the following...
>
> <Resource name="jdbc/SURESWIT" auth="Container"
> type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
> <ResourceParams name="jdbc/SURESWIT">
> <parameter><name>user</name><value>xxxx</value></parameter>
> <parameter><name>password</name><value>yyyy</value></parameter>
> <parameter><name>driverClassName</name>
> <value>COM.ibm.db2.jdbc.app.DB2Driver</value></parameter>
> <parameter><name>driverName</name>
> <value>jdbc:db2:SWPPDB2</value></parameter>
> </ResourceParams>
>
> The web.xml includes
>
> <resource-ref>
> <res-ref-name>jdbc/SURESWIT</res-ref-name>
> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
> <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
> </resource-ref>
>
> The Java code performs the following :-
>
> if (ds == null)
> {
> try {
> Context ctx = new InitialContext();
> ds = (javax.sql.DataSource) ctx.lookup(("jdbc/SURESWIT");
> ctx.close();
> }
> catch (Exception e)
> {
> logger.text( IRecordType.TYPE_ERROR_EXC,
> className,
> "init(ServletConfig)",
> "Naming service exception:" + e.toString());
> }
> }
>
> When the above code runs it throws the following exception
> init(ServletConfig) Naming service
> exception:javax.naming.NameNotFoundException:
> Name jdbc is not bound in this Context
>
> I have copied the DB2 jdbc driver file to $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib (I
> copied it both as .zip and .tar as some web resources suggested tomcat
would
> only recognise it as .tar)
>
> ANY and I mean ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Even if it's to say
it
> doesn't work with tomcat.
>
> Many thanks Alan
>
>
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