I want to thank those who have been trying to help me get this working. I am still stuck on this.
I am going to try and ask the same question again in a little different way and maybe someone can spot what I am doing wrong. Or perhaps tell me if DB2 will not work with a DataSource. I have tried several different ways of configuring this. Mostly I have edited the server.xml file myself. My latest attempt is to use the Tomcat management application. The generated XML from server.xml is: <GlobalNamingResources> <Environment name="simpleValue" type="java.lang.Integer" value="30"/> <Resource auth="Container" description="User database that can be updated and saved" name="UserDatabase" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"/> <Resource name="jdbc/TestDB" type="javax.sql.DataSource"/> <ResourceParams name="UserDatabase"> <parameter> <name>factory</name> <value>org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>pathname</name> <value>conf/tomcat-users.xml</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> <ResourceParams name="jdbc/TestDB"> <parameter> <name>maxWait</name> <value>5000</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>maxActive</name> <value>4</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>password</name> <value>test</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>url</name> <value>jdbc:db2://devhost1:446/FTBDB2D</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>driverClassName</name> <value>com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>maxIdle</name> <value>2</value> </parameter> <parameter> <name>username</name> <value>f4185</value> </parameter> </ResourceParams> </GlobalNamingResources> In my web.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"> <web-app> <display-name>Data Source Test Servlet</display-name> <description>Data Source test servlet for Tomcat</description> <servlet> <servlet-name>DSServlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>DSServlet</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>DSServlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/DSServlet</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <resource-ref> <description> Resource reference to DB2. </description> <res-ref-name> jdbc/TestDB </res-ref-name> <res-type> javax.sql.DataSource </res-type> <res-auth> Container </res-auth> </resource-ref> </web-app> In catalina.out: org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class ' ' for connect URL 'null' at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSou rce.java:780) at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource .java:540) at DSServlet.connect(DSServlet.java:99) at DSServlet.doGet(DSServlet.java:38) ... Farther down: Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException So I think the NullPointerException is in createDataSource. Could this mean that the DB2 driver is incompatible in some way? Other info: Tomcat 5.0.28, DB2 8.1 (actually 8.2 I think). I am able to access the database using DriverManager, so I am sure my URL is right. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]