Hi, I'm trying to use the commons DBCP package with Tomcat 6.x. I know that the tomcat_dbcp.jar has the commons files renamed, however I would prefer to use the commons jar files so I can use the class org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource in my code.
To do this, I deleted the tomcat_dbcp.jar file from CATALINA_HOME/lib and replaced it with the commons jar file. I assumed that the class loader would pick it up like it did in the earlier version of tomcat but that doesn't seem to happen. I still get an ClassCastException since tomcat tries to cast the org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource to org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource. Is there any way I can force Tomcat 6.x to load my commons dbcp jar instead of the tomcat_dbcp.jar which comes with the distro? Thanks! Dhiren
