I've read through Ch.5 of the J2EE 1.3 spec, looked at the Servlet 2.3 spec,
and poked around in the Tomcat docs. I'm not finding an answer to this
question:

How and where do I specify the signon information necessary to create a
proper DataSource object so that I can connect to my DB?

I have a Tomcat 4.0b7 running along with MySQL. I have/will created JDBC
2.0-derived classes to provide me with a DataSource for the MySQL db. I
understand how to specify a <resource-ref> in the web.xml file and I know
how to call InitialContext.lookup() to get a reference to the DataSource.

According to the J2EE 1.3 spec (J2EE.5.4.2, last paragraph), how and where
the specifics of creating a DataSource is up to the "container and resource
manager". Is there documentation on how I specify this in Catalina?

TIA,

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Roderick Mann               rmann @ latencyzero.com.sansspam


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