Re: global.jsa/faq and other questions

[Drew Cox <dc...@barrack.com.au>]

Hi Shahbaz,

If you are new to JSP and Servlets, I would recommend you also joining the
JSP-INTEREST and SERVLET-INTEREST mailing lists hosted by JavaSoft.  They
have a lot of general discussions on the technologies, and searchable
archives at archives.javasoft.com.

The issues of application scoped events and database connection pooling have
been discussed a lot on these lists.  Check the archives for these.

Good luck

Drew

----- Original Message -----
From: Shahbaz A Chaudhary <ch...@engin.umich.edu>
To: <ge...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2000 11:57 PM
Subject: global.jsa/faq and other questions


> Hello, I recently joined this list so excuse me if some of my questions
> have already been answered.  Speaking of which:
>
> 1) I wasn't able to find an archive of messages exchanged here.  The web
> page that does have archives (can't remember the url) doesn't seem to have
> archives of this particular list.
>
> 2) The FAQ is not up on the jakarta page, is work still being done on
> that?
>
> now some real questions...
> 3) Is there global.jsa type of support in tomcat?  A place where I can
> define session/application wide variables or objects.
>
> 4) There are a large number of JDBC examples with JSP, but most of them
> just use normal jdbc code as a script (in <% %> tags).  There don't seem
> to be any examples of how to use the connection object as a bean.  I say
> that because I would like to have a connection (although preferebly a set
> of connections) defined as application wide so connections don't need to
> be repeatedly opened and closed each time a page is loaded.
>
> Since java.sql.connection is just an interface and not a class, beans
> don't seem to want to instantiate it (id="conn"
> class="java.sql.connection" type thing).  An example of a connection bean
> will be appreciated.  I tried creating a class with a connection object as
> a public object (and no argument constructor that assigned a connection to
> it), but I still can't seem to be able to use that.
>
> I've been struggling with these questions for some time, hopefully someone
> can point me in the right direction.  Thanks.
>
> Shahbaz Chaudhary
>
>
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