JNDI Lokup for DSN in iPlanet 6.5 App 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

Well, it looks like you haven't actually configured a datasource with that name. You've only configured the use of the datasource were it to exist. I don't know iPlanet, so you'll have to consult the docs to find out how to create the DS.