Check that you have Tyrex in your tomcat install, the light edition doesn't include it (from memory). Also have a look through past messages about some Naming* classes being missing from the RPM versions of TomCat
Turner, John wrote: >Thanks for the reply, I've tried the solution in that link. As I said, >nothing has worked, and I am unable to use anything past 4.0.4 until it is >officially released (not beta). > >John Turner >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Vikramjit Singh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 8:16 AM >To: 'Tomcat Users List' >Subject: RE: Datasource JNDI lookup failing > > >I had a similar problem, but i was using classes12.zip that is from Oracle. >I tried every option, but it didnt seem to work. Then at the end upgraded to >tc 4.1.7. TC 4.1.7 had all the included files, and got the DataSource and >the connection. >My advice, upgrade to TC 4.1.7 (AFAIK) it has much better support for JNDI. >Anyways there has been a lot of discussion about this in the past weeks. You >could check out the archives also. Check this link also. > >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=102225547106556&w=2 > >Regards, >Vikramjit Singh, >Systems Engineer, >GTL Ltd. >Ph. 7612929-1059 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 5:05 AM >To: 'Tomcat Users List' >Subject: RE: Datasource JNDI lookup failing > > > >I've had the exact same problem with for the past couple of weeks, only with >the Microsoft Type4 SQL Server driver. Everything seems to work great, and >the Context is definitely found, but the DataSource is always null. > >I haven't been able to find a solution, the closest I came was going to >4.1.7, but I can't do that until it is officially released (my client has a >no betas restriction for production apps). > >If anyone knows for sure how to get around this problem using current >production versions, I would love to know about it. > >John Turner >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Adam Lipscombe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 7:57 AM >To: Tomcat Users Mailing List >Subject: Datasource JNDI lookup failing > > >Folks, > >I am having a problem trying to lookup a Database connection from JNDI with >Tomcat 4.0.4 on Debian Linux. >My code is: > > Connection con = null; > > System.out.println("instantiating database connection "); > > try > { > System.out.println("getting InitialContext"); > Context ctx = new InitialContext(); > System.out.println("got InitialContext"); > > // Print out bindings to make sure its there > NamingEnumeration e = ctx.list("java:comp/env/jdbc"); > while(true == e.hasMore()) > { > System.out.println("enumeration name = " + e.next()); > } > > // Get JDBC context > System.out.println("getting JDBC context"); > Context jdbcContext = (Context) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc"); > System.out.println("got jdbcContext"); > > // Look up our data source > System.out.println("looking up insuranceAdminTest"); > DataSource ds = (DataSource) jdbcContext.lookup("insuranceAdminTest"); > System.out.println("got DataSource"); > > con = ds.getConnection(); > System.out.println("got connection"); > } > catch (NamingException ex) > { > System.err.println("failed to obtain JNDI context"); > throw new HalvorException("failed to obtain JNDI context", ex); > } > catch (SQLException ex) > { > System.err.println("failed to open database connection"); > throw new HalvorException("failed to open database connection", ex); > } > > >The output from the above is: > >instantiating database connection >getting InitialContext >got InitialContext >enumeration name = insuranceAdminTest: org.apache.naming.ResourceRef >getting JDBC context >got jdbcContext >looking up insuranceAdminTest >failed to obtain JNDI context > > >The server.xml snippet is: > ><Resource name="jdbc/insuranceAdminTest" auth="CONTAINER" > type="javax.sql.DataSource"/> > <ResourceParams name="jdbc/insuranceAdminTest"> > <parameter><name>user</name><value>halvor</value></parameter> > <parameter><name>password</name><value>halvor</value></parameter> > ><parameter><name>driverClassName</name><value>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</value > > >></parameter> >> >> > ><parameter><name>driverName</name><value>jdbc:mysql:///InsuranceAdminTest</v >alue></parameter> > </ResourceParams> > >the web.xml snippet is: > > <resource-ref> > <res-ref-name>jdbc/insuranceAdminTest</res-ref-name> > <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> > <res-auth>Container</res-auth> > > > >What I dont understand is that the line that prints "enumeration name = " >find the insuranceAdminTest binding, but the subsequent lookup on the >jdbcContext Context fails... > > > > >Does anyone know what is wrong? > > >Many thanks - Adam Lipscombe > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
