Subject Re: [Firebird-Java] Re: Firebird in Tomcat 5.5.x
Author Gonzalo Odiard
Thanks, Rick.
The problem was with the sintax of the url, because it is diferent to
the url in JBoss.
Thank you, for the detailed response.

Gonzalo Odiard

rfincher2000 wrote:

>Hi Gonzalo,
>
>Tomcat 5.5.X has connection pooling built in, so be sure you don't add
>any commons jars for DBCP to the ones already in the Tomcat setup or
>it will mess things up.
>
>All you have to do is put firebirdsql-full.jar in
>$CATALINA_home/common/lib, then put a context configuration file in
>named "context.xml" in The WEB-INF directory of your web app.
>
>A minimal one for Jaybird looks like this:
>
><Context path="/dbTest" docBase="dbTest" debug="1" reloadable="true">
><Resource name="jdbc/dbTest" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
>username="sysdba"
>password="masterkey"
>driverClassName="org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver"
>url="jdbc:firebirdsql://localhost:3050/c:\\databases\\TEST.GDB"
>maxWait="-1" />
></Context>
>
>This is for a Windows server (note the double '\\' after c:) you'll
>need to change that for yours to:
>
>jdbc:firebirdsql://localhost:3050//home/bases/proyectos/proyectos.gdb
>
>
>Tomcat 5 will use that to build the DataSource for your web app.
>
>In the Tomcat docs you can look up all the additional tags you can use
> in context.xml associated with the DataSource and pooling.
>Verification SQL strings and RemoveAbandonded are good to use.
>
>The web.xml file hasn't changed much for Tomcat 5.5 but here is the
>DataSource snippet just in case:
>
> <resource-ref>
> <description>Test SQL DB Connection</description>
> <res-ref-name>jdbc/dbTest</res-ref-name>
> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
> <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
> </resource-ref>
>
>
>
>You may need to slightly change your code for accessing the dataSource
>in your app.
>
>For the above example it looks like:
>
>DataSource ds=null;
>Connection conn=null;
>
>try
> {
> Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
> Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
>
>
> if(envCtx == null )
> throw new Exception("Boom - No Context");
>
> ds = (DataSource) envCtx.lookup("jdbc/dbTest");
>
>
> try
> {
> conn = ds.getConnection();
> }
> catch (SQLException se)
> {
> System.out.println("getting new data source connection failed!
>Error: "+se+"\n");
> }
>
> }
> catch (Exception e)
> {
> System.out.println("Could Not get data source, error: "+e+"\n");
> }
>
>Hope this helps!
>
>
>
>Rick
>
>
>
>--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, Gonzalo Odiard <go@t...> wrote:
>
>
>>Hi, i have my applications working ok in JBoss 3.x and 4.0.x with
>>
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>Firebird,
>
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>>but i want to work in Tomcat and can't make a connection pool.
>>I have tried with diferent methods, seting the pool in the
>>
>>
>server.xml of
>
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>>tomcat or in the context.xml file in the application, but with out luck.
>>I am setting the parameter
>>
>>
>driverClassName=org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver
>
>
>>is that correct?
>>The jar file i am using is firebirdsql.jar, but i have tried
>>firebirdsql-full.jar too.
>>Always obtain the same error:
>>
>>org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException:
>>Cannot create JDBC driver of class 'org.firebirdsql.jdbc.FBDriver' for
>>connect URL '127.0.0.1/3050:/home/bases/proyectos/proyectos.gdb', cause:
>>java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver
>> at java.sql.DriverManager.getDriver(DriverManager.java:243)
>> at
>>
>>
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>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:743)
>
>
>> at
>>
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>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:518)
>
>
>>Any idea?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Gonzalo Odiard
>>
>>P.D: I have tried all the methods in
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>>http://www2.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=25459
>>
>>http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3175042�
>>
>>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=29795
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