Re: How to turn off JNDI datasource connection pooling

2009-01-16 Thread Keith Thomas
Thanks Jan. I don't want to use Tomcat's database pool, I just want to be able to define the datasource using JNDI so it is external to my application. I am doing this for various web servers and I'm beginning to think I will have to tell my customers Tomcat does not support JNDI datasource defini

RE: How to turn off JNDI datasource connection pooling

2009-01-16 Thread Keith Thomas
I am managing the database connection credentials because this is the only way to access this legacy database. Otherwise I have very little code because Hibernate takes care of all the heavy lifting. As part of the deployment I just need a way of defining the datasource in a manner that is externa

RE: How to turn off JNDI datasource connection pooling

2009-01-16 Thread Keith Thomas
>> It's not clear what you want to do (as opposed to what you don't want to do). Is your goal to use a >> new DB connection for every DB access your webapp makes, or do you want to do DB connection >> >> pooling inside your webapp, or ??? >> Not using connection pooling at all is a real perform

Re: How to turn off JNDI datasource connection pooling

2009-01-16 Thread Keith Thomas
Apologies if I don't understand how a jndi datasource should work or if I've not provided enough explanation but what I want is for Tomcat to keep out of connection creation. Even if I have maxactive set to 1 I still get a stacktrace like this, at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DriverConnectionFacto

Re: How to turn off JNDI datasource connection pooling

2009-01-15 Thread Keith Thomas
Thanks Chuck. I've uploaded it again, this time as a text file. It seems ok this time. On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: > > From: Keith Thomas [mailto:keith.tho...@gmail.com] > > Subject: How to turn off JNDI dataso

How to turn off JNDI datasource connection pooling

2009-01-15 Thread Keith Thomas
I have an application that runs against a legacy database. For reasons I won't go into here I need to turn off jndi datasource connection pooling. I have been unsuccessful finding documentation or mailing list entries on how to do this. I am running Tomcat 6.0.18 as a service on Win XP against a