That depends on what version fo Tomcat you run.  If you run Tomcat-4.1.x, 
you will find all the commons libraries referenced below in 
$TOMCAT_HOME/common/lib:

commons-collections.jar
commons-dbcp.jar
commons-pool.jar

The reason your JDBC driver needs to be here alongside the jars above is 
that both the server and your app need access to the resouces.  jars in 
server/lib can't see webapps and jars in shared/lib (plain "lib" on 
Tomcat-4.0.x) or WEB-INF/lb cannot see the server jars.  common/lib is the 
only place that makes the resources available to both entities.

Jake

At 08:27 PM 8/28/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I was reading about setting up conn pooling for tomcat using MySQL and step
>1 of the instructions says:
>
>Install mm.mysql driver, DBCP, collections and pool jarfiles into
>$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. You will experience problems if you place these
>jarfiles in your webapp's WEB-INF/lib directory, in your
>$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext or anywhere else, so dont.
>
>Umm ... what collections and pool jarfiles?????
>
>Thanks.
>Neal
>
>
>--
>To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reply via email to