Hi Ramesh, Did you configure a JNDI datasource in tomcat? In that case the datasource exists "outside" your app.
Cheers, Kees de Kooter http://www.boplicity.net On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 13:06, peterramesh <ramesh.ramas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On reading Tomcat help doc > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html, it > recommends to place the MySQL JDBC driver in both places (CATALINA_HOME/lib > and WEB-INF/lib folder of the app). > > If I haven't placed in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder, my app is failing with > driver not found error. I'm puzzled with.. > > 1. Why Tomcat look for the JDBC jar to be in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder? > 2. If I copied more than one JDBC jars (with different version) in > CATALINA_HOME/lib folder for couple of my applications, how each of them > looks for the respective versions of JDBC driver? > > Thanks, > Ramesh > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Why-tomcat-6.0.18-looks-for-MySQL-JDBC-driver-to-be-placed-in-CATALINA_HOME-lib-folder--tp21788529p21788529.html > Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
