Hi folks, This may very well be a DB issue and not a Tomcat issue, and if so, sorry to bother you.
But I thought I'd quickly run it by the folks here for a second opinion. Using Tomcat 6.0.26, on XP Pro, connecting to Oracle 10. Now, I have one app that connects fine to an Oracle UNIX server in the northeast region of the country. I'm trying to connect to a second one (different context info and credentials) in the midwest. Regions aside, for simple connectivity testing purposes at the moment, I'm not worrying about the context.xml info - I'll address that later. But for now I'm simply testing a query through the JSP. Again, I'm assuming it's the Ora DB itself, even though I can successfully either TNSPING it or connect via an Access-ODBC connection to it, from the same machine. I'm getting the following error in the logs: ug 13, 2010 2:58:03 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception java.sql.SQLException: Io exception: Connection refused(DESCRIPTION=(TMP=)(VSNNUM=169870336)(ERR=12505)(ERROR_STACK=(ERROR=(CODE=12505)(EMFI=4)))) at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:134) at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:179) at oracle.jdbc.dbaccess.DBError.throwSqlException(DBError.java:334) at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.handleIOException(TTC7Protocol.java:3678) at oracle.jdbc.ttc7.TTC7Protocol.logon(TTC7Protocol.java:352) at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleConnection.<init>(OracleConnection.java:365) at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.getConnectionInstance(OracleDriver.java:547) at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver.connect(OracleDriver.java:347) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source) at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(Unknown Source) at org.apache.jsp.referral_005fsplit_jsp._jspService(referral_005fsplit_jsp.java:95) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:377) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:313) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:260) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:465) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:859) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1555) Any help or feedback is appreciated! Thanks, Barry