I think you'll have to have your webapp manage it's own DBCP pool
locally.  I doubt there's a good way to change pool parameters on tomcat
provide database pools on the fly.  At minimum, any change to the
<Resource ... /> element config would require your webapp be restarted.

--David

Paul Selibas wrote:
> Greetings,
> Firstly i am using Tomcat 5.5 and Java 1.5. I am writing a simple web app
> but now my problem is the "setup" for the dbcp.
>
> I have set up the app with the resource tag in the context.xml file in the
> META-INF folder and it all works fine. Now for my problem... I would like to
> be able to change the username, password, driver class etc from the app
> itself (in order for people to point to different databases dynamically). My
> first idea was to do all these settings in a properties file but i cant find
> a way to get those property values into the context.xml. I am also open to
> setting up the resource from the code itself but cannot find a way to do
> this. Does anyone have any suggestions or ideas. I have done allot of
> Googling with not luck.
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Paul Selibas
>
>   


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