We have a custom factory that derive from org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory. We have it inside our war, we're plug it in inside application's context.xml as
<Resource name="jdbc/db" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" dsProps="properties.file" removeAbandoned="true" username="user" password="pass" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://test-db.parnet:3306/ibox_UA_test?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8" factory="ru.ibox.processing.commons.ParnetDataSourceFactory" /> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > Kirill Vasiliev wrote: > > Tomcat-5.5.27 > > Java 1.5.17 > > Win XP SP2 > > > > In the documentation about custom resource factories ( > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html) I > read > > following: When you are through, place the factory class (and the > > corresponding bean class) unpacked under $CATALINA_HOME/common/classes, > or > > in a JAR file inside $CATALINA_HOME/common/lib. In this way, the required > > class files are visible to both Catalina internal resources and your web > > application. > > Does it mean that I must ALWAYS put it in common, or I must put it in > common > > if I want it visible to Tomcat? > > I.e. can I put custom factory to WEB-INF/lib of my application if I don't > > want it to be visible to Tomcat? > > You can, but if it isn't visible to Tomcat it isn't going to work via JNDI. > > Mark > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >