Re: a little disillusioned

David,

See my previous posts I included files to set it up

Dave
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 21:01, David Wilbur wrote:
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> just wanted to mention that this person is not alone here.
> unfortunately the docs as far as tomcat and postgres boils down to
> some major hand waving.  each relying on the other to work things out
> for the other.  mysql getting the best treatment from the tomcat
> people.
>
>
> the os that i am running this on is:
>
>
> mac os 10.3.2,
>
>
> java version "1.4.1_01"
>
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1_01-99)
>
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.1_01-27, mixed mode)
>
>
> tomcat was compiled from jakarta-tomcat-5.0.16-src.tar.gz where it
> pulls all the files off the jakarta site.
>
>
> postgresql 7.4.1
>
>
> the following is a really trimmed down version of code from the tomcat
> examples re jdbc connection pools:
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>
>       Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
>
>       Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
>
>       DataSource ds = (DataSource)envCtx.lookup("jdbc/postgres");
>
>       try {
>
>           Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
>
>           if(conn != null)  {
>
>               foo = "Got Connection "+conn.toString();
>
>               Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
>
>               ResultSet rst = stmt.executeQuery( "select id, foo, bar
> from testdata" );
>
>               if(rst.next()) {
>
>                  foo=rst.getString(2);
>
>                  bar=rst.getInt(3);
>
>               }
>
>               conn.close();
>
>       } catch (SQLException e) {
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>           foo = "SQLException: " + e;
>
>       }
>
>
> results in a index.jsp showing this for foo...
>
>
> SQLException: org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load
> JDBC driver class 'org.postgres.Driver', cause: org.postgres.Driver
>
>
> when i go into the administration utility i find  a definition for the
> data source where the web app is defined under
>
>
> "/Tomcat Server/Catalina/localhost/DBTest/Data Sources"
>
>
> <color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>JNDI Name       JDBC Driver Class</color>
>
> <color><param>5555,1A1A,8B8B</param>jdbc/postgres</color>
> org.postgres.Driver
>
>
> delving into that i see this:
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>
> JNDI Name:   jdbc/postgres
>
> Data Source URL: jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/test
>
> JDBC Driver Class: org.postgres.Driver
>
> User Name: jakarta
>
> Password: "the correct password"
>
> Max. Active Connections: 20
>
> Max. Idle Connections: 10
>
> Max. Wait for Connection: 10000
>
> Validation Query:
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>
>
> i modified the basic.java file that comes with the postgres jdbc
> driver and ran it using the connection string above
>
>
> jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/test
>
>
> and that works fine using the same jar file that tomcat is using.
>
>
>
> there is only one jar file in the tomcat directorys and it is located
> at:
>
>
> find $CATALINA_HOME -name "postgresql.jar"
>
> /usr/local/jakarta/tomcat/common/lib/postgresql.jar
>
>
> my class path has only ant and java home on it and i have checked to
> see if the jar is there.
>
>
> what i think would be really awesome is if one of you that have this
> working could look at the tomcat "documentation" for setting  up
> postgres and tomcat and maybe helping them and us by maybe making it
> more intelligible... cause it is a mess as it is now.  in fact if
> someone helps me work this out and they don't want to do it i will...
> see:
>
>
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html
>
>
> maybe even adding the same advice to the postgres jdbc examples so
> that we would have a starting point that we knew was working for
> someone...  this is a nice starting point, but... it might be nice to
> add in something along the line of how to set up a java web server to
> use postgres.
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/jdbc-datasource.html
>
>
>
> i am suspecting that it is one of the xml files... either
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> WEB-INF/web.xml... but i really don't know for sure what i might have
> wrong there.
>
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> dave
>
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