Out of luck ;)
Dont think it can be done... I think JNDI has a problem serving dB
connection pools outside of a container... it needs the classloaders, common
JVM etc etc.
I imagine one could make a RMI type provider... but a direct connection to
the dB via JDBC is probably always going to be
As I see it you are mixing two different things, your web application will
always run inside Tomcat server but your desktop application can be
anywhere(not just on TC server).
The simplest way to do this might be to write your own database connection
helper class which would go to the context (
Alejandro,
I've dealt with a similar problem by utilizing the Primrose database
connection pool (http://www.primrose.org.uk/) for my application in
desktop mode. I've used MySQL or postgreSQL, and used Tomcat's db
pool when my app runs in web mode.
For desktop mode, one sets up a Primrose
