Hi,
I'm using Tomcat 6.20 and have configured a datasource in
META-INF/context.xml, which looks basically like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Context reloadable="false">
   <Resource
      name="jdbc/mydb"
      factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
      type="javax.sql.DataSource"
      scope="Shareable"
      auth="Container"
   />
</Context>

For brevity I have removed some attributes, but this is basically my
definition.

I can now just directly look up this DataSource using JDNI under the
java:comp/env/jdbc/mydb name. However according to
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html
I need to add a resource-ref element to my web.xml. I didn't do that
and it still works. Am I missing something? What's the purpose of
resource-ref anyway?

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