--- Wade Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Andre Van Klaveren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Like Bruce said, you can define a DataSource as > part > > of your > > application's context. It's the same format as > the > > context definition > > in server.xml except it's deployed with your > > application as an XML > > file (context.xml) inside the META-INF directory > of > > the WAR. > > > > Here's a link to explain how to do it: > > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html > > > > They don't go into using context.xml but the same > > instructions can be > > applied to using the context.xml. > > > > > > > > On 12/26/05, Legolas Woodland > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Hi > > > Thank you for reading my post. > > > Is it possible to make a data-source without > admin > > console ? > > > I mean by defining the data-source in web.xml or > > in Context.xml (i think > > > i read somewhere that we could put context.xml > > into meta-inf folder and > > > it will act like Context definition in admin > > console). > > > > > > is it mandatory that Tomcat shared library > folder > > contain my database > > > jdbc driver to have data-source ? > > > I mean can we bundle , our JDBC driver inside > war > > file and define the > > > data-source in war file too ? > Some drivers will need to be placed in the endorsed > folder as they will end up loading native libraries > which can access other code. I'm not sure where the > security file you would need to edit to not make > this > a requirement is if one even exists. My experience > with the MS SQL (not MySQL) driver is it needs to be > in this directory to work. You can change the > location of this directory using switches if you > need > it to be some where else for file and drive setup > reasons. > > Wade >
See the -Djava.endorsed.dirs option in the Windows tomcat service configuration tool (Java tab) or the scripts for the Unices. Wade --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
