What the hell is <resource-ref> in web.xml used for ? My imagination is as follows, please confirm or deny it.
<resource-ref> is part of servlet spec, not tomcat spec. context.xml and it's resource declaration is private concept of tomcat, not described by any external specificatin, jsr, etc. <resource-ref> says, that in your webapp you can lookup such type by such name with jndi. in case of tomcat application can run without it, <Resource ...> in context.xml is sufficient, but in other servlet containers it can be different, and they may require <resource-ref> declaration. regards Jakub
