Anyone successfully set up connection pool in s1as with ms sql server 2000?

Question

As subject. Since I have seen a lot of posts about the NoSuchMethodException issue with various dbms providers, and the only "official information" I found thru different forums, google, different sun/javasoft sites and forums are this:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsunone%2F8172&zone_32=NoSuchMethodException&wholewords=on
Which is wonderfully vague and provide not-so-much useful information...
As for the information and suggestion posted by other forum members, most or all of them have experience with setting up Oracle, DB2, mySQL, etc., not aimed for MS SQL Server 2000 (you may think, I am just asking for it running MS SQL server with Java... oh well, not my choice)
I still haven't seen any positive feedbacks on how this exception was caused and how to resolve it. I have literally exhausted all leads on how to fix this issue, so right now I'm only interested to know whether anyone in the forum actually have a successful connection pool set up with MS SQL server 2000.
My platform:
w2k sp3
SunOne app server, update1, JDK 1.4.1
latest MS SQL 2000 JDBC driver
This fails with the NoSuchMethodException error:
try {
InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup("test_db");
con = ds.getConnection();
System.out.println( "con is created -> " + con );
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println( "failed -> " + ex.getMessage() );
This works just fine:
try {
Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");
con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1433;DatabaseName=testdb;SelectMethod=cursor", "username", "password");
System.out.println( "con is created -> " + con );
} catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println( "failed is fucked -> " + ex.getMessage() );
thanks,
--kuan

Answer 1

Hi,
Thanks for pointing out that article, I did not find it previously. After following the directions in the artile and your advise, now dbping seems to be able to connect to SQL server.
Thank you very much.
--kuan