Easy JNDI + Connection Pool Question

This is an easy question:
Once I get the object represented by my connection pool from the
Weblogic JNDI tree, how do I get a connection from the returned object
of type weblogic.common.internal.ResourceAllocator?
I keep getting ClassCastExceptions. I have tried
ConnectionPoolDataSource, Connection, and DataSource.
String conPool = "weblogic.jdbc.connectionPool.demoPool";
try {
Object obj = ctx.lookup(conPool);
msg(DEBUG,"FROM LOOKUP" + obj.getClass().getName());
//DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup(conPool);
//con = ds.getConnection();
} catch (NameNotFoundException e) {
// binding does not exist
msg(ERROR,"BINDING DOES NOT EXIST",e);
} catch (NamingException e) {
// a failure occurred
msg(ERROR,"NAMING FAILURE OCCURED",e);
} catch (Exception e) {
msg(ERROR,"SOME RANDOM ERROR",e);
Thanks,
-Jacob

"Jacob Meushaw" wrote in message
Once I get the object represented by my connection pool from the
Weblogic JNDI tree, how do I get a connection from the returned object
of type weblogic.common.internal.ResourceAllocator?
I keep getting ClassCastExceptions.
DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup(conPool);I think, you must use narrow operation:
Object reference = ctx.lookup(conPool);
DataSource ds =
(DataSource) PortableRemoteObject.narrow (ds,DataSource.class);
I haven't got time to check it, but I hope that works.
Wojtek

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The issue may not be related to the number of connections or the initial
connections. Check your heap size (ms, mx). Turn on verbosegc. Your heap may
not be big enough to accept the 25,000 rows.
Bernie
"Manish Kumar Singh" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:3e6c34ca$[email protected]..
We are creating the result set with 25000 rows(each row has 56 columns) bygetting the connection using data source. With the initial capacity of the
connection pool is 5 and the max capacity as 30 and grow connection as 1,
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thanks in advance
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<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql" prefix="sql" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<sql:query var="rs" dataSource="jdbc/MySQL">
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</head>
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I was not able to get it working exactly according to the tutorial, though. I was required to put the <context> element not in the conf/server.xml but in conf/Catalina/localhost/DBTest.xml. Then, with the DBTest/WEB-INF/web.xml as above, I was able to get the DBTest example working. The output of test.jsp (described above also) is the following:
Results
Foo hello
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But if I move the <context> element into webapps/DBTest/META-INF/context.xml then the example stops working. When I put it back in conf/Catalina/localhost/DBTest.xml everything is fine again.
Ok, no big deal. I guess my war file deployment will just have to be a little more complicated.
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Can some remarkably intelligent and knowledgeable person please explain to me how global resources work in tomcat 5.0, especially global JDBC connection pooling.
Thanks,
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Hi,
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module pools all needing to database connections
from the same underlying application user at the
database level. In this case, the many application
module pools can perhaps economize on the total
overall database sessions by sharing a single,
underlying database connection pool of JDBC
connections, albeit at a loss of efficiency of each
one. This choice would be favored only if total
overall database sessions is of maximum priority. "
Does it mean that if we set it to true when we
have many many AM instances and we cannot afford to
have such number of connection instance in the pool
? It's means that the JDBC connections will be shared avoid new Connection at time.
Normally i use Connection Pool not managed by Application Module.
Bye

Problem with creating Connection pool and JNDI, driver is not detected

Hi,
I have an issue with creating Connection Pool and JNDI.
I'm using:
- JDK 1.6
- OS: Linux(ubuntu 8.10)
- Netbeans IDE 6.5.1
- Java EE 5.0
- Apache Tomcat 6.0.18 Its lib directory contains all necessary jar files for Oracle database driver
- Oracle 11g Enterprise
My problem is that the Oracle database driver is not detected when I want to create a pool (it works pretty well and is detected without any problem when I create ordinary connection by DriverManager)
Therefore after running:
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
Context context = (Context)ic.lookup("java:comp/env");
DataSource dataSource = (DataSource)context.lookup("jdbc/oracle11g");
Connection connection = dataSource.getConnection();and right after dataSource.getConnection() I have the following exception:
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot load JDBC driver class 'oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver'
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1136)
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:880)
at servlets.Servlet1.doPost(Servlet1.java:47)
at servlets.Servlet1.doGet(Servlet1.java:29)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
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.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
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:286)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:845)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188)
at sun.misc.Launcher$ExtClassLoader.findClass(Launcher.java:229)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:252)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:320)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:169)
at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1130)
... 17 more
My application context file (context.xml) is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/WebApplication3">
<Resource auth="Container"
                  driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
                  maxActive="8"
                  maxIdle="4"
                  name="jdbc/oracle11g"
                  username="scott"
                  password="tiger"
                  type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                  url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:database01" />
</Context>and my web.xml is:
    <resource-ref>
        <description>Oracle Datasource example</description>
        <res-ref-name>jdbc/oracle11g</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
    </resource-ref>
...I found similar threads in different forums including sun, such as
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=567630&start=0&tstart=0
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=639243&tstart=0
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5312178&tstart=0
, but no solution.
As many suggest, I also tried to put context directly in the server.xml (instead of my application context) and referencing it by <ResourceLink /> inside my application context but it didn't work and instead it gave me the following message:
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '   ' for connect URL 'null'
Has anyone succeeded in creating a connection pool with JNDI by using Tomcat 6 or higher ? If yes, could kindly explain about the applied method.
Regards,

Hello again,
Finally I managed to run my application also with Tomcat 6.0.18. There was only two lines that had to be modified
in the context.xml file (the context of my application project and not server's)
Instead of writing
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/WebApplication2">
    type="javax.sql.DataSource"
    factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
</Context>we had to write:
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/WebApplication2">
    type="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"
    factory="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSourceFactory"
</Context>- No modification was needed to be done at server level (niether server.xml nor server context.xml)
- I just added the ojdbc6.jar in $CATALINA_HOME/lib (I didn't even need to add it in WEB-INF/lib of my project)
- The servlet used to do the test was the same that I presented in my precedent post.
For those who have encountered my problem and are interested in the format of the web.xml and context.xml
with Tomcat 6.0, you can find them below:
Oracle server: Oracle 11g Enterprise
Tomcat server version: 6.0.18
Oracle driver: ojdbc.jar
IDE: Netbeans 6.5.1
The context.xml file of the web application
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/WebApplication2">
    <Resource name="jdbc/oracle11g"
              type="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"
              factory="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSourceFactory"
              url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:database01"
              driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
              userName="scott"
              password="tiger"
              auth="Container"
              maxActive="100"
              maxIdle="30"
              maxWait="10000"
              logAbandoned="true"
              removeAbandoned="true"
              removeAbandonedTimeout="60" />
</Context>The web.xml of my web application
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
    <resource-ref>
        <description>Oracle Database 11g DataSource</description>
        <res-type>oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
        <res-ref-name>jdbc/oracle11g</res-ref-name>
    </resource-ref>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Servlet1</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>servlets.Servlet1</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Servlet1</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/Servlet1</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>Ok, now I'm happy as the original problem is completely solved
Regards

Connection pool utilization - questions and problems.

Hi,
This is in context to JSP/Java/JPDK based web provider applcation. Appreciate it if anyone can add any input here -
1)After adding dbPersonalization to my JSP portlets I noticed that the connections in my connection pool have maxed out. After the first few page renderings, it breaks. I am not sure if its an inherent problem in my design. But, I do know that it started happening soon after I add the dbPersonalization with all its required setups as specified. Could that be possible ? Besides the connectionmanager.xml file required by the dbPersonalization setup, I also have my own connection properties file where I specify the min and max connections in the pool for all my java classes/methods to make use of. Is there a chance that the connection pooling information from both the files are clashing each other ??
2) On a related topic - I wanted to get some input on a design question. I have about 10 JSP Portlets on each of the four tabs of my Portal page, with each one instantiating one class (useBean) that contain methods to get data from the database. Now every single method of each of these classes, gets and puts a connection object from the pool.
The question is if the frequency of getting a conn object in every method of every JSP portlet too expensive ? Would it be better to make use of one connection object common to all the methods in a class/JSP/portlet ?
I had set the min to 6 and the max conns to 25 and it looks like very soon all 25 gets used, which wasnt happening before I added the dbPersonalization setup to my portlets. The dbPersonalizaiton is only for editDefaults though.
regards
-Ananth Makaram

Ryan,
as to your 7.2.1 problem: MANY people had that same issue and did revert to
7.1.1 (I did the same after being unable to connect once I upgrade) So no
worries - your AEBS is fine as it is working with 7.1.1
For the second part, I am not a wifi guy, but check out the article on
http://www.bbwexchange.com/pubs/2006/09/20/page1397-228167.asp
maybe that will give you some idea about WiFi 2.0 and if you benefit from it!
Joerg

Questions regarding Connection Pooling

Hi
i have some confusion regarding how connection pooling is implemented..i have been doing some digging in to this lately but the more i read the more confused i get. i have some doubts here, will any of the posters here kindly clear them
a. Do i have to connect to my database via the DataSource method to take advantage of the connection pooling provided by my app server?..i have read conflicting information about this suggesting that Connection Pooling will not be provided to my app if i use DriverManager.getConnection()
b. if i chose to use the DataSource method do i have to implement the ConnectionPoolDataSource interface to provide the connection pooling for my app?
c. what is the best way to implement my own custom Connection pool?
Thanx

DriverManager.getConnection() literally creates, that is, builds a connection to the database using the values you previously supplied when you loaded the driver.
A connection pool is an object that contains several already made connections to the database, and simply provides you with one of those existing connections. The confusion arises because a) the method name is frequently the same and b) the connection pool object calls the driver's getConnection() method to create several connections before lending any of them out.
In other words:
DriverManager.getConnection() builds a connection to the database.
ConnectionPool.getConnection() fetches an existing connection.
So, to answer your questions...
A. This is correct. If you use DriverManager.getConnection(), you are indeed bypassing the Connection Pool entirely.
B. I'm not familiar with DataSource specifically, but in general, a third party connection pool will either give you the interface (and you implement the details) or they will give you the class file containing the DataSource object. All you would have to do in the latter case is to import that file, then create a new instance of it using the new keyword ( DataSource foo = new DataSource(); ). I suspect DataSource is indeed the class file.
C. Creating a connection pool is trivial and there are many examples of it - search on this forum or check out your favorite Java/JDBC programming book. Usually, the question "Should I use a connection pool and why?" is a more important question.

Questions on Connection Pooling

I already read the documentations on data-sources.xml, but I still have questions. In the following data-sources.xml (for OC4J 9.0.3):
<data-source
class="com.evermind.sql.ConnectionDataSource"
name="ccf"
location="jdbc/ccf"
xa-location="jdbc/xa/ccf"
ejb-location="jdbc/ccfPool"
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@erb:1521:prod"
connection-driver="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
username="scott"
password="tiger"
max-connections="300"
min-connections="5"
max-connect-attempts="10"
connection-retry-interval="1"
inactivity-timeout="30"
wait-timeout="30"
/>
I know that if we want to use a connection pool, we should use "ejb-location" and it is the only one used for emulated data sources. I also know that both "location" and "xa-connection" are used for non-emulated data sources.
Then my questions are:
1) Does non-emulated data source mean that it can not used for connection pooling? In other words, both "location" and "xa-location" can not be used for connection pooling? The only one that can be used for connection pooling is "ejb-location"?
2) How can I use a non-pooled connection? right now, I am using "location" for non-connnection pooling, is this the right way to do it? The documentation says that it will be deprecated in future release, then what should I use if I want a non-pooled connection? can I still use "ejb-location" by setting "min-connections" and "max-connections" to 1? This is assuming that we can NOT use "location" to get the data source.
3) Putting the username and password in the data-sources.xml seems not be good from the security point of view. But, if I am using CMP, I must supply the username and password in the data-sources.xml. Is there another way around this?
Thank you very much for the help in advance.
Jingzhi

Liu
I may not answer all ur questions.But would like to share my experiences....
3) U can set the username and password dynamically also...we use it in orion..so u should be able to use it in oc4j..as a matter of fact, we can set all the data-sources parameters dynamically(programmatically).
1) I may not be correct 100 percent with this :but for pooling only ejb-location is used and for non pooling location is used.
For non pooled connections also, use ejb-location and dont give any max and min connections..let it take the default values...
I am not aware that Oracle is going to deprecate the location ..well it is good to hear this which will reduce some confusion..
seems there is lot being raised on these topics..
yugandhar

BPEL - Database Connection Pools, JNDI - How do you do it ?

Scoured forum and BPEL developer and admin guides, and didn't find any good instructions on how to configure and use database pools for BPEL, except possibly this post nearly two years ago data-sources.xml and oc4j-ra.xml
I suspect things may have changed some in two years ! Where can I find this info. Does anyone who has done it have step by step instructions ?

You should have scoured better ;-)
I had a problem that needed to be fixed with a connection pool. Check this post:
Strange Toplink errors appearing
It points to some documentation that will help you:
http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/integrate.1013/b28994/adptr_db.htm#sthref528
Basically you have to do the following:
- look in the WSDL of your DB adapter. It will have a jca:address section. In this section you will see a jndi location, something like: eis/DB/<a_connection>. Make note of this location
- on the server look for the file oc4j-ra.xml in <oracle_home>/j2ee/<oc4j_soa>/application-deployments/default/DbAdapter. Edit the file. In there are mappings that basically forward the object in location eis/DB/<a_connection> to jdbc/<connection>.
E.g.:
<connector-factory location="eis/DB/DBConnection1" connector-name="Database Adapter">
                <config-property name="xADataSourceName" value="jdbc/DBConnection1DataSource"/>
                <config-property name="dataSourceName" value="loc/DBConnection1DataSource"/>
                <config-property name="platformClassName" value="oracle.toplink.platform.database.Oracle9Platform"/>
                <config-property name="usesNativeSequencing" value="true"/>
                <config-property name="sequencePreallocationSize" value="50"/>
                <config-property name="defaultNChar" value="false"/>
                <config-property name="usesBatchWriting" value="true"/>
                <connection-pooling use="none">
                </connection-pooling>
                <security-config use="none">
                </security-config>
        </connector-factory>Now copy one of these blocks and edit it so that the location matches your eis/DB/<a_connection> location. Map the dataSource and xaDataSource properties to jdbc/<connection> s (which you create in the next step)
- go to the enterprise manager, click on the soa suite oc4j container, choose the 'administration' link. Click on the 'Go to task' icon for JDBC connections. Here you can create your connection pool, and db connection. Make sure the location of your JDBC connection matches what you have configured in the oc4j-ra.xml file.
- restart your soasuite/bpel oc4j container
- bob's your uncle ;-)
HTH,
Bas

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