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On 3/29/06, Gary VanMatre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: "James Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Never mind, I mis-spelled the bean name in the Faces-Config. Oh the > > shame :( > > > > The init and destroy is called twice if you navigate back to the same page > (postback). > > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38000 > > It doesn't sound like that is what is going in your case. I would look at > using the JNDI connection pooling over this method if you want to use the > jdbc api directly. > > > Gary > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:33 AM > > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > Subject: [Shale] When to create a database Connection? > > > > > > I'm getting a null pointer error in my backing bean. My grand plan was > > to create a Connection in the init() method extended from the > > AbstractViewController, so it can be used by any number of methods and > > getters in my bean, and then close it in destroy(). > > > > In this simple case, the only place this Connection is used is in a > > getter that returns a Result for a dataTable. However, it doesn't seem > > to be working as I get a null pointer exception. If I move the > > getConnection() method out of the init() method and into this getter, > > then everything works great. > > > > Am I miss-using the init() method? > > > > > > Import lots.of.stuff; > > > > public class Testimonial extends AbstractViewController { > > private Connection conn = null; > > > > public Testimonial(){ > > } > > > > public void init() { > > try { > > conn = DbConnection.getConnection(); > > System.out.println(); > > } catch (SQLException e) { > > e.printStackTrace(); > > } > > } > > > > public void destroy() { > > try { > > if (!conn.isClosed()) { > > conn.close(); > > } > > } catch (SQLException sqle) { > > log(sqle.getMessage(), sqle); > > sqle.printStackTrace(); > > } > > } > > > > public Result getAllTestimonials() { > > /* ### moving the "conn = DbConnection.getConnection()" here > > solves the problem ### */ > > Result result = null; > > PreparedStatement ps = null; > > try { > > ps = conn.prepareStatement(SqlStatements.ALL_TESITIMONIALS); > > result = ResultSupport.toResult(ps.executeQuery()); > > } catch (SQLException sqle) { > > System.out.println("SQL Exception:" + sqle.getMessage()); > > sqle.printStackTrace(); > > } catch (Exception e) { > > System.out.println("Exception:" + e.getMessage()); > > e.printStackTrace(); > > } finally { > > try { > > if (ps != null) { > > ps.close(); > > } > > } catch (SQLException e) { > > e.printStackTrace(); > > } > > } > > return result; > > } > > } > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Alexandre Poitras Québec, Canada --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
