Access to Oracle 8i DB using iPlanet web server

Question

Hi ,
I have been trying to implement Connection Pooling in my application using the built-in features of iPlanet App server 6.5 . For the same i have made the following entries:
1. web.xml
<resource-ref>
<description>Ptrade Entry</description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/ptradeDataSource</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
2. ias-web.xml
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/ptradeDataSource</ref-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/ptrade/ptradeDB</jndi-name>
</resource-ref>
3. Also my class tries to ge the context using
try {
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
ds = (DataSource)ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/ptradeDataSource");
catch (NamingException ne) {
System.out.println("Naming Exception" + ne);
Connection dbc = ds.getConnection();
return dbc;
However i am getting an javax.naming.NameNotfoundException: can't locate jdbc/ptradeDataSource.
Could somebody pls tell me what is wrong with my configuration and code?

Answer 1

Hi Rahul,
Thanks for bringing this page to my
notice..But there are still a few doubts which i
have...
. I have worked on JNDI so far, so could you please
tell me where exactly i need to define the namespace
of JNDI ? In which all configuration files would i
need to declare the database? more specifically,Would
i need to make any changes to server.xml?Probably web.xml and server.xml
2. Could you please share any xml files that would
give the additions that i need to make in my setup?I don't use iPlanet. Not many people do these days that I know of.
You could look at the Tomcat docs on how to set up a JNDI data source. That should help.
3. Would i need to explicitly close the DB
connections in my code?You should be already. If you're not, you're writing bad code. ResultSets and Statements need to be closed as well.
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