I'm having the same problem. From what I read the most common problem is that you jdbc driver jar is not in <tomcatehome>/common/lib dir. Apparently if its only the the web apps ../WEB-INF/lib the tomcat runtime does not have access to it. But, I still have the same problem. I know the jar file is getting used from ../common/lib because I can delete it when Tomkitty is fired up.
What version of Tomcat are you using. I'm using V4.1.27LE(No sax parser included.) JDK 1.3. I'm currently doing a new install of tomcat LE. If that does not work I'm trying Tomcat standard from http://www.tux.org/pub/net/apache/dist/jakarta/tomcat-4/ Later, Rober Wynkoop -----Original Message----- From: Ben Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'null' Ok, I know this topic has been posted many times, but I can't find anything to help. I have OracleDriver in [$CATALINA_HOME]/common/lib here's my server.xml <GlobalNamingResources> ...................... <Resource name="myDS" scope="Shareable" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container"/> <ResourceParams name="myDS"> <parameter> <name>validationQuery</name> <value>select user from dual;</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>url</name> <value>jdbc:oracle:thin:myMachine:1521:myDBName</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>username</name> <value>hris</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>password</name> <value>****</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>maxActive</name> <value>4</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>maxWait</name> <value>5000</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>driverClassName</name> <value>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>maxIdle</name> <value>2</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> </GlobalNamingResources> and my web.xml: <resource-ref> <res-ref-name>jdbc/fsaDS</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> <res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope> </resource-ref> in the administrative tool: the top level Resources->DataSources looks ok as MyDS is listed there but the /my_context->Resources->Datasources gives: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Exception retrieving attribute 'driverClassName' and the localhost_log.xxx.txt (when it tries to use myDS): java.sql.SQLException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'null Any help would be great - I've been trying everything - reloading with different configurations about 50 times - looking through books, mailing lists/archives. Thanks, Ben _________________________________________________________________ Get 10MB of e-mail storage! Sign up for Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
