On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 23:59, rrokytskyy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please check that you have connector.jar, jaas.jar,
> jta-spec_1_0_1.jar, concurrent.jar, and probably jmxri.jar in your
> Tomcat classpath.

No matter what I use for a global classpath, Tomcat ignores it. Although
from my experience in the gui so far, all I need is the connector.jar,
not the rest.

> These classes might be a part of your Java GUI, but
> not Tomcat. Also, it might be a good idea to put all these classes
> into $TOMCAT_HOME/lib directory, so they are loaded by the main
> classloader.

Because of Tomcat ignoring my global classpath, I always place symbolic
links to any .jar I use in Tomcat that are not site specific. So I do
have a symbolic link for firebirdswl.jar and the connector.jar.

For the record by global classpath, I mean one that can be shown by
typing $CLASSPATH into the shell and hitting enter.

I have tried the other .jars but no difference. I have to have the
connector.jar or I can't through exceptions due to the javax.resources.*
not being there. But the rest do not seem to make a difference.

So I really appreciate your suggestions but I have tried them and no go.
That's why I said it was really strange. I can try adding them to the
global classpath again and then also he symbolic links as well just to
confirm once again if that makes a difference or not.

Just in case you do not like the sound of symbolic links, I have never
had any problems using them for .jar, and I use allot of .jars that live
outside of Tomcat. So this is not the problem. But I have no clue what
is? It is very strange.

Although there is one more difference between my GUI and the servlet.
The servlet is a connection pool. It uses the same base class that the
gui uses, but it creates several connections. 15 total initially, and I
get logs saying that all fifteen failed. So I am not sure if the speed
of trying to connect several times is screwing things up.

It is the strangest thing I have seen since I do not know how to fix,
and with Java the problems are usually pretty obvious.

I am open to any other suggestions or comments.

Thanks

> Best regards,
> Roman Rokytskyy
>
> --- In Firebird-Java@y..., "William L. Thomson Jr." <support@o...> wrote:
> > I am experiencing some weirdness I can't find an explanation for.
> >
> > I have two machines, one my laptop, and the other a development server.
> > I can connect from my laptop to the DB's using the JCA-JDBC driver, as a
> > plain JDBC driver via the firebirdsql.jar.
> >
> > When I attempt the same from my development server I cannot?
> >
> > I do get the following error
> > java.sql.SQLException: Problem getting connection: could not get a db
> > connection!
> >
> > Which is pretty obvious but not specific. I have verified the
> > classpath's and everything on the two machines to be the same.
> >
> > The only difference is on my laptop I am using the JDBC driver as part
> > of a Java GUI. On the development server I am using the JDBC driver in a
> > servlet running on Tomcat. Although that really does not explain the
> > problem I am having.
> >
> > I do not believe it to be a problem with the servlet since it worked
> > fine with InterClient. Outside of some strange errors from InterClient
> > when I switched to Firebird from InterBase.
> >
> > Both machines run RedHat Linux, and both machines are aware of the
> > service that runs on port 3050 via the /etc/services file. The db runs
> > on a dedicated RedHat Linux machine, so both have the same access to it.
> >
> > So I am sort of stuck for an explanation. Why one works fine and the
> > other no go? I can't see it being a Tomcat issue, but I guess it could
> > be?
> >

--
Sincerely,
William L. Thomson Jr.
Support Group
Obsidian-Studios Inc.
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