No. As I've said, you never import the driver / connector classes directly. You have a complete working example: Mahout. As you can see it doesn't depend on this.
As I've also said, please read the documentation for Tomcat (or your container). Here you go: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html#JDBC_Data_Sources This is where MySQL Connector/J is involved. 2011/2/16 Daniel Mühlbachler <[email protected]>: > ok, thanks for your detailed answer - now I understand! :) > > So my problem is that I must import the MySQL Connector/J into my source > files because I need them. The nasty thing about that is that I just need > "import com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlDataSource;" in my dataSource but > that won't work because there shouldn't be any dependencies on that because > I must configure the web application to use/provide the connector. > omg... Is there any example round here that shows such a configuration? >
