You have to get a driver for the database you are using. You have to get a whole mydatabase.jar of files from them, implementing the jdbc interfaces. Then you put those into /lib/ext/ in Tomcat and j2ee and /jre/lib/ext/ in j2se. These do not need to be specified in CLASSPATH.
-----Original Message----- From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: Re: OKAY: HERE GOES. THIS IS GETTING INTERESTING. Re: Tomcat 4.0/JDBC driver configuration? >To answer your question, yes I understand what a servlet's init() method is >and when it's called. You've provided valuable information and I >basically understand it, providing jdbc setup info through init-params in >web.xml. I'll definitely plan on looking closer at javax.jdbc - I've only >used the (as you put it) 'kiddy' jdbc stuff in the past. > >However, my question is about the physical location of the jdbc driver .jar >file. In other environments I've worked with, including the location of >the .jar in the CLASSPATH was sufficient. With Tomcat, does one have to >copy the driver to ../common/lib? If so, that doesn't seem like a very >good situation to be in especially in a production environment. I tried to >modify CLASSPATH in the startup scripts to see if that'd work, but >everything went haywire after that under Win2k - *nothing* worked even >after backing out the simple change (even had to reboot to get things in >working order again). > >I suspect I'm again missing/not understanding something. > >Thanks again for your help... >Mark > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
