I am using Tomcat 5.5.9, MySQL 4.1.14, Java 5.0 Update 5, MySQL-JDBC Connector version 3.1.11, commons-collections-3.1.jar, commons-pool-1.2.jar, commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar, running on Debian Stable. I have been fighting with this for several days now and I am no closer to a solution, can someone please point out what I am doing incorrectly. Here is the exception:
Jan 1, 2006 1:26:45 PM org.eandk.data.User load SEVERE: [User.load]: Load query failed with SQLException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:780) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:540) at org.eandk.data.User.load(Unknown Source) at org.eandk.pages.admin.SecureHandler.handleRequest(Unknown Source) at org.eandk.AdminSite.doPost(Unknown Source) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:856) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:744) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver at java.sql.DriverManager.getDriver(DriverManager.java:243) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:773) ... 20 more Here is my server.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Server> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener"/> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.storeconfig.StoreConfigLifecycleListener"/> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.ServerLifecycleListener"/> <GlobalNamingResources> <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer" value="30"/> <Resource auth="Container" description="User database that can be updated and saved" name="UserDatabase" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"/> <Resource auth="Container" name="jdbc/presserfoot" type="javax.sql.DataSource" password="PASSWORD" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" maxIdle="2" maxWait="5000" username="javadb" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/presserfoot?autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=U TF8&amp;max-connections=50&amp;min-connections=2&amp;inactivity-timeout=30&amp;wait-timeout=30" maxActive="4"/> </GlobalNamingResources> <Service name="Catalina"> <Connector port="80" minSpareThreads="25" connectionTimeout="20000" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" compression="on"> </Connector> <Connector URIEncoding="null" port="443" scheme="https" secure="true" minSpareThreads="25" clientAuth="false" uRIEncoding="null" maxSpareThreads="75" maxThreads="150" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" compression="on"> </Connector> <Connector port="8009" redirectPort="8443" protocol="AJP/1.3"> </Connector> <Engine defaultHost="localhost" name="Catalina"> <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"/> <Host appBase="webapps" name="localhost"> <Context path="/sample"> <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> </Context> </Host> </Engine> </Service> </Server> I have a context.xml in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/pfadmin/META-INF, its contents are: <Context path="/pfadmin" docBase="pfadmin" debug="5" reloadable="true"> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix="localhost_DBpresserfoot_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/> <ResourceLink global="jdbc/presserfoot" name="jdbc/presserfoot" type="javax.sql.DataSource"/> </Context> I know the servlet is working because I get a static response from it before a database query is made. Here is the method that is the code snippet around the query: ... Context ctx = new InitialContext( ); DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup( "java:comp/env/jdbc/presserfoot" ); conn = ds.getConnection(); stmt = conn.createStatement( ); String query = "SELECT id,passwd FROM user WHERE uname LIKE " + uName + ";"; rs = stmt.executeQuery( query ); ... Can someone please point out the error I am making, I would appreciate any help that can be given. Thanks. Eric --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]