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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by peterramesh <ra...@gmail.com> on 2009/02/04 14:52:21 UTC
Re: Why tomcat 6.0.18 looks for MySQL JDBC driver to be placed in
CATALINA_HOME/lib folder?
Hi Kees,
Yes. Since, I'm using the JNDO datasource the JDBC driver need to be in
$CATALINA_HOME, becase 'common' class loader looks for the JDBC driver (it
may be invoked by tomcat-dbcp.jar).
Ramesh
Kees de Kooter wrote:
>
> Hi Ramesh,
>
> Did you configure a JNDI datasource in tomcat? In that case the
> datasource exists "outside" your app.
>
> Cheers,
> Kees de Kooter
> http://www.boplicity.net
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 13:06, peterramesh <ra...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On reading Tomcat help doc
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html, it
>> recommends to place the MySQL JDBC driver in both places
>> (CATALINA_HOME/lib
>> and WEB-INF/lib folder of the app).
>>
>> If I haven't placed in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder, my app is failing with
>> driver not found error. I'm puzzled with..
>>
>> 1. Why Tomcat look for the JDBC jar to be in CATALINA_HOME/lib folder?
>> 2. If I copied more than one JDBC jars (with different version) in
>> CATALINA_HOME/lib folder for couple of my applications, how each of them
>> looks for the respective versions of JDBC driver?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ramesh
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