Hi Chuck,
> Which context.xml? The global one in the conf directory, or an > app-specific one in its META-INF directory? > The global one in the conf directory. > > we modified this line in catalina.config > > I presume you mean catalina.properties in the above statment. > Yep, typo, sorry :) > > common.loader=${catalina.home}/lib,${catalina.home}/lib/*.jar,* > > ${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}/lib/*.jar* > > Did you add the extra asterisks, or is that an artifact of your copy & > paste? > C&P artifact. In my sent items folder on Gmail, I'm not seeing them. > > Unfortunately when we use -Dcatalina.config to specify > > catalina.properties.development, the postgres.jar file > > is no longer found when Tomcat attempts to create a connection. > > Evidence to support that assertion? (I.e., post the stack trace.) > When we use catalina.properties (and omit the -Dcatalina.config option), everything works. When we attempt to use catalina.properties.development (file diff shows no differences) by specifying the -Dcatalina.config property, this is what happens: DataSource ds = (DataSource) new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/postgres"); ds.getConnection(); org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'org.postgresql.Driver' at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1136) at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:880) Thanks guys, really appreciate the help! Rob