Running Tomcat 5.5.17 through Eclipse 3.2.1 Using jdk1.5.0_08 OS = Windows XP
-------------------- server.xml contains the following within the <Server> element: <GlobalNamingResources> <Resource auth="Container" driverClassName=" com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver" maxActive="30" maxIdle="2" maxWait="5000" name="jdbc/myDatabase" password="pw" type=" javax.sql.DataSource" url="jdbc:as400://abc.def.com" username="uid"/> </GlobalNamingResources> ------------------ the web application's context.xml contains the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context path="/TestBed" reloadable="true"> <ResourceLink global="jdbc/myDatabase" name="jdbc/myDatabase" type="javax.sql.DataSource" /> </Context> ----------------- my servlet code contains the following: InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); Context envCtx = (Context) ctx.lookup("java:comp/env"); ds = (DataSource) envCtx.lookup("jdbc/myDatabase"); con = ds.getConnection(); --------------- jt400.jar contains the driver class com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver and the jar files resides in WEB-INF/lib under my web app. ------------- the ds.getConnection call is causing the following exceptions to be thrown: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver' at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource( BasicDataSource.java:766) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection( BasicDataSource.java:540) at com.nuhorizons.util.TestStuff.doPost(TestStuff.java:48) at com.nuhorizons.util.TestStuff.doGet(TestStuff.java:34) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter( ApplicationFilterChain.java:252) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter( ApplicationFilterChain.java:173) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke( StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke( StandardContextValve.java:178) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke( ErrorReportValve.java:105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke( StandardEngineValve.java:107) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service( CoyoteAdapter.java:148) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java :869) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection (Http11BaseProtocol.java:664) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket( PoolTcpEndpoint.java:527) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt( LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:80) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run( ThreadPool.java:684) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:164) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource( BasicDataSource.java:760) ... 19 more -------------- What setting in Eclipse am I overlooking? Many thanks, David