Netbeans DB Connectivity

Question

When i normally would deploy a web app under a stand alone tomcat i would have the following code
<Context path="/micro" docBase="micro" debug="0" reloadable="true">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="dating_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true"/>
<Resource name="jdbc/MYSQL" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="0" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000"
username="root" password="root" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/micro?useUnicode=true"/>
</Context>
However the above code does not work when i edit netbeans' tomcat server.xml file. Instead i am getting various error such as
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base C:\Documents and Settings\costas\.netbeans\5.0beta2\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9_base\webapps\micro does not exist or is not a readable directory
Where should i declare the DB resource for the specific application, if i am not allowed to edit the server.xml file ?
I was wondering what i am doing wrong. The MySQL driver is usually under the tomcats common/lib folder. Should it be there under netbeans' tomcat as well ?
Thanx a lot,
C.

Answer 1

I've found the answer to my own question. I was working with legacy code from another programmer who had named the Date/Time field "Date". Since this is a Reserved Word, when I tried use that tag to specify a field to Insert Into, the DB Toolset interpreted the tag as a specific SQL request rather than as the name of a separate field. The fix was simply to rename that field to JunkDate (or whatever) and then the rest of the Cat String-based SQL Insert Into statement worked fine. Shows the problem of simply using legacy code, esp when it was targetted for a different platform (viz VB) and was done by a very sloppy programmer....