Thanks, I'll give it a try. Still kind of curious if GlobalResources override resources in META-INF/context.xml, but I guess I will find that out soon.
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Pid <p...@pidster.com> wrote: > On 14/09/2010 23:10, Alec Swan wrote: > > GlobalResources sounds like what I am looking for. According this page ( > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/globalresources.html) it > > seems like I need to just add the following configuration in server.xml: > > > > <GlobalNamingResources ...> > > ... > > <Resource name="jdbc/EmployeeDB" auth="Container" > > type="javax.sql.DataSource" > > description="Employees Database for HR Applications"/> > > ... > > </GlobalNamingResources> > > > > > > If I understand correctly, this will make jdbc/EmployeeDB JNDI resource > > available to every web application deployed in the container, correct? > > Will it override the JNDI resource definition packaged in > > META-INF/context.xml inside of the WAR file? > > You can then remove that resource def. > > You'll need a ResourceLink in the Context definition to make the global > resource available to webapps - but this can be standard, regardless of > dev/prod. > > > p > >
