Tomcat 5.5 server.xml question

When I installed Tomcat 5.5 I had to edit server.xml to work with my application. For that I had to specify the <Context path>. But I never found the tg in my server.xml. So how do i go about configuring my server.xml.
As in my application name in webapps directory is java_ex . How and where do i specify that in my Tomcat 5.5 server.xml

See this link about defining contexts: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
You don't need to define a context if your server is set up for automatic deployments. It will deploy anything that looks like a webapp in the "webapps" directory. (ie is in that directory, and has a WEB-INF/web.xml file)
If you DO need to define a context (usually for database connection setup) it is better to define the context info in its own file rather than in server.xml.
- in individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/ directory. The name of the file (less the .xml) extension will be used as the context path.
ie create the file [TOMCAT]/conf/Catalina/localhost/java_ex.xml and put your context definition in there.
Cheers,
evnafets

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<Engine className="org.apache.catalina.connector.warp.WarpEngine"
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<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
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     org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:98)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:331)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
     org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)As far as i know all the necessary sql server jar files are in my classpath, and any way i have them all sitting in the CATALINA_HOME/common/lib directory.
Question:
Am i going about this correctly? Some tutorials i have read say that i should be updateing the server.xml file but whenever i go near that tomcat will not even start.
Help greatly appreciated.
If there is anything i have not posted let me know and i will get it up.
Rob

Updating the server.xml file used to be necessary. It is no longer required, and actually not recommended any more.
The best approach I feel is as you have done here, putting the definition into a context.xml file specifically for this application.
In fact it all looks pretty good to me.
JDBC driver jar in [TOMCAT]/common/lib - check
Configuration in context.xml rather than server.xml - check
Using JNDI - check.
Have you got the connection url right?
Is it jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver or just jdbc:sqlserver ? I have seen both on various sites around the internet.
What version of SQL Server are you using? Check its documentation on the JDBC driver as to what class to use, and what the connection string should be.
Try it in a plain java class - can you get a connection just using plain JDBC code?
What values do you use for that?
Hope this helps,
evnafets

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