On Monday 26 August 2002 22:47, you wrote:
> I saw one other post on the archives about this but it has no resolution.
>
> I have set up Tomcat 4.0.4 to use the jndi resource factory to use pgsql
> jdbc connection "pooling" (fake pooling).
>
> Whenever I call the second
> line of this code:
> Context ctx = (Context) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env");
> conn = ((DataSource) ctx.lookup("jdbc/IFDB")).getConnection();
>
> I get a "Something unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail. Please
> report this exception: Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException Stack
> Trace: java.lang.NullPointerException at
> org.postgresql.Connection.openConnection(Connection.java:155)"
> error.
>
> My server.xml resource looks like this within the context tag:
> <ResourceParams name="jdbc/IFDB">
> <parameter>
> <name>user</name>
> <value>kenjackson</value>
> </parameter>
> <parameter>
> <name>password</name>
> <value>29gzy8</value>
> </parameter>
> <parameter>
> <name>driverClassName</name>
> <value>org.postgresql.Driver</value>
> </parameter>
> <parameter>
> <name>driverName</name>
> <value>jdbc:postgresql://postgresql1.eapps.com:5432/</value>
> </parameter>
> </ResourceParams>
>
First quick look says me that you need one extra line before
<ResourceParams>....</ResourceParams> entry
It should be something like
<Resource name="jdbc/IFDB" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource" description="blah blah blah"/>
Do you have it and miss it in you e-mail or you don't have it at all?
> NOTE: I have changed the user parameter to name "username" but that
> doesn't help and the tyrex api asks for "user" so I'm assuming that's
> right.
>
> and my webapp web.xml:
> <resource-ref>
> <description>
> Resource reference to a factory for java.sql.Connection
> instances that may be used for talking to a particular
> database that is configured in the server.xml file.
> </description>
> <res-ref-name>
> jdbc/IFDB
> </res-ref-name>
> <res-type>
> javax.sql.DataSource
> </res-type>
> <res-auth>
> Container
> </res-auth>
> </resource-ref>
>
> Has anyone else run into a similar problem. From what I have seen on the
> list the Tyrex api is a problem, but I'm currently stuck with it.
>
> thanks,
> Adam Kramer
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