On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Caldarale, Charles R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From: Jason Cipriani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [6.0.16] JNDI, MSSQL, context.xml, server.xml, >> web.xml, common/lib, DataSources, exceptions, configuration >> hell, vague tutorials, hidden documentation, lions, tigers, >> bears, oh my... >> >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html > > You would have saved yourself a lot of trouble by using the documentation > relevant to the Tomcat version you're using: > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html
Yes, I would have, thanks for the link. My problem is that I'm not really a good Java web application programmer, and before trying to set this up I had no idea what JNDI or DataSources were at all (that was part of the "gory details" I left out) -- so reading the (very helpful now that I know what I'm looking at) JNDI section in the Tomcat docs didn't mean anything to me when I was just setting up Tomcat. I went in to #java, asked about JDBC DataManagers, was pointed towards DataSources instead, and Googled from there on out. One disappointing thing is that as I was researching this, even when I asked in #tomcat (and #java), on freenode, specifically for relevant documentation -- nobody referenced that. Everybody just offered the same varying and incorrect advice that you'll find when Googling on the internet. At that point I had forgotten about the Tomcat docs, having already gotten everything I wanted out of them when setting up Tomcat to begin with. > Read the real doc first, Google second. The doc links from the Tomcat home > page are pretty easy to follow. Well: 1. Read the real doc. 2. Ask on mailing list. 3. Read the real doc again. 4. Google. 5. IRC. Thanks again for pointing that out, and sorry for asking a dumb question. Jason > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
