Problems with Oracle 9i and Tomcat

Question

Hello,
I am running Tomcat and Oracle 9i. I am trying to get my connection pooling working so I can use a JNDI. But I am having a problem.
When I include everything in a jsp file it connects to the database and produces a result.
Connection conn = null;
try
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
"jdbcracle:thin:@xxx.xxx.xx.xx:1521:dev",
"happy",
"xxxx");
When I have it in the Context I just get:
A Java.nullpointerexception
My server.xml is:
<parameter>
<name>url</name>
<value>jdbcracle:thin:@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1521:dev</value>
</parameter>
With the same parameters for username and password as above.
My servlet is:
Context ctx = new InitialContext();
if(ctx == null )
throw new Exception("Oops - No Context");
DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/database");
if (ds != null)
conn = ds.getConnection();
All your help is appreciated:
CC

Answer 1

Try out the new driver by Oracle ojdbc14.zip or ojdbc.jar