I added the same entry to context.xml under $CATALINA/conf and it did work. Could there be something else wrong?
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > Mighty Tornado wrote: > > JVM: 1.5.0_16Tomcat: 6.0.16 2 > > OS: Mac OS X Leopard > > > > Hi, > > > > I defined the following context.xml under META-INF: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > > > <Context path="/Household" docBase="Household" debug="5" > reloadable="true" > > crossContext="true"> > > > > <Resource > > > > auth="Container" > > > > description="DB Connection" > > > > name="jdbc/vhousehold" > > > > type="javax.sql.DataSource" > > > > password="vhousehold" > > > > driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" > > > > maxIdle="2" > > > > maxWait="5000" > > > > validationQuery="/* PING */ SELECT 1;" > > > > username="vhousehold" > > > > url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/vhousehold" > > > > maxActive="4"/> > > > > </Context> > > > > > > In web.xml I have the following: > > > > > > <resource-ref> > > > > <description>Connection Pool</description> > > > > <res-ref-name>jdbc/vhousehold</res-ref-name> > > > > <res-type>javax.sql.Datasource</res-type> > > > > <res-auth>Container</res-auth> > > > > </resource-ref> > > > > > > I try to get this data source in my application using the following code: > > > > > > DataSource ds = (DataSource)initContext.lookup( > > "java:/comp/env/jdbc/vhousehold"); > > > > > > and it fails. This is the exception I get: > > > > javax.naming.NamingException: Cannot create resource instance > > > > at > > > org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceFactory.java:143) > > > > at > > javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:304) > > > > at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:793) > > > > at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140) > > > > at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:781) > > > > at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:140) > > > > at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:781) > > > > at org.apache.naming.NamingContext.lookup(NamingContext.java:153) > > > > at > > org.apache.naming.SelectorContext.lookup(SelectorContext.java:137) > > > > at javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup(InitialContext.java:351) > > > > at > > com.vhousehold.dao.RandomPhraseDAO.getPhrases(RandomPhraseDAO.java:60) > > > > at > > > com.vhousehold.model.RandomPhraseModel.getRandomPhrase(RandomPhraseModel.java:19) > > > > at > com.vhousehold.servlet.VHController.doPost(VHController.java:52) > > > > at > com.vhousehold.servlet.VHController.doGet(VHController.java:35) > > > > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) > > > > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) > > > > at > > > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286) > > > > at > > > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845) > > > > at > > > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583) > > > > at > > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447) > > > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:613) > > > > > > Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong? > > You've added the path and docBase attributes to your > META-INF/context.xml. Don't do that. > > Are the credentials you're using for the database correct? > > p > > > > Thanks. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
