DataSource Fails to Connect After SQL Server Reboots

Question

I have a SQL Server which is rebooted once every week. I also have a small daemon thread running on Tomcat 4.1 that checks a database every 60 seconds for a specific setting. When something changes it sends an email to the required email address. The connection object the daemon uses is created from a datasource configured in Tomcat's server.xml specific to the daemon's application. After the reboot of the SQL Server I receive this error message "[Microsoft][SQLServer 2000 Driver for JDBC]Connection reset by peer: socket write error" ever time the daemon tries to connect to the datasource.
Anybody have any ideas as to where the problem may lie?
Any suggestions as to a work around?
Thanks
jmorrison42

Answer 1

Thanks for your response 8233. Below is the Context tag of Tomcat's server.xml file...
<Context className="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext" cachingAllowed="true"
                         charsetMapperClass="org.apache.catalina.util.CharsetMapper" cookies="true"
                         crossContext="false" debug="0" displayName="Forecast" docBase="forecast"
                         mapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextMapper" path="/forecast"
                         privileged="false" reloadable="true" swallowOutput="false" useNaming="true"
                         wrapperClass="org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper">
                         <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
                              prefix="localhost_forecast_log." suffix=".txt"
                              timestamp="true"/>
                         <Resource name="jdbc/DEVSERVER" auth="Container"
                              type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
                         <ResourceParams name="jdbc/DEVSERVER">
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>username</name>
                                   <value>JAVA_USER</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>password</name>
                                   <value>JAVA_USER</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>driverClassName</name>
                                   <value>com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>url</name>
                                   <value>jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://DEVSERVER:1433</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>removeAbandoned</name>
                                   <value>true</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>removeAbandonedTimeout</name>
                                   <value>60</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>logAbandoned</name>
                                   <value>true</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>maxWait</name>
                                   <value>5000</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>maxActive</name>
                                   <value>10</value>
                              </parameter>
                              <parameter>
                                   <name>maxIdle</name>
                                   <value>5</value>
                              </parameter>
                         </ResourceParams>
                         <ResourceLink global="mail/Session" name="mail/Session" type="javax.mail.Session"/>
                    </Context>
After my last post, I changed the Context paramater reloadable from false to true. All other tags have not been modified. (I haven't had the opportunity to test this change because my SQL Server doesn't reboot until Sunday.) Does that parameter affect the datasource's availability after a disconnect such as this?
Thanks again for your help
jmorrison42