Tomcat and Oracle

Question

Hi. I have tomcat 6 and Oracle 10g Express edition 10.2.0.1.0 and I have to make a jsp page that would connect to my database and get data from it.
In server.xml I added:
<Resource name="jdbc/myoracle" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@127.0.0.1:8080:apex"
username="hr" password="hr" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10"
maxWait="-1"/>
and in web.xml:
<resource-ref>
<description>Oracle Datasource example</description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/myoracle</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
I also downloaded ojdbc14.jar driver and placed it into tomcat/lib folder.
now, I dont know how to connect to the database in my jsp page and what imports to make, I tried to search the web and couldnt find anything specific.
Can you please help me? How would I for example list all entries from say Employees table that is already created.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
Found the solution best described in below link.
http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/UsingDataSources
Im using tomcat 6.0.18 on vista and oracle 10g. Hope this Infomation might help someone.
1. comment following line in TOMCAT_HOME\conf\context.xml
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
2. copy following in ur web applications META-INF\context.xml
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Context>
<Resource name="jdbc/oraclexe" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@127.0.0.1:1521:xe" username="oracle"
password="oracle" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="-1" />
</Context>
3. no need to edit TOMCAT_HOME\conf\server.xml or WEB-INF\web.xml.
Hope this helps
bye