Hi Everyone:
I'm trying to to find some sort of definite answer to this dilemma. This not a "does not work" type problem, more of a "would like to know a better way" type deal :)
I have a web application (WAR) that requires a DataSource. Naturally, I'd like to maintain a simple and consistent way of acquiring that DS through JNDI, but that seems to be either not easy, or impossible, or I just plain don't know(more probable than anything)...
What I mean is that, if I have a DS defined as:
jdbc/DataSource
under ANY app Server/web container, I'd like to acquire it by using just that name, not some variant of
java:/ (jboss)
java:comp/env (Tomcat and many others)
I've scoured the group, and I found a suggestion of using jboss.xml. I created one like this:
<resource-managers>
<resource-manager res-class="">
<res-name>jdbc/DataSource</res-name>
<res-jndi-name>java:/jdbc/DataSource</res-jndi-name>
</resource-manager>
</resource-managers>
and placed it under the MANIFEST-INF directory of my WAR.
The Datasource happens to be a mySQL, but I think that's beside the point. So, the excerpt of that service file is:
<mbean code="org.jboss.resource.connectionmanager.LocalTxConnectionManager" nam
e="jboss.jca:service=LocalTxCM,name=DataSource">
....
jdbc/DataSource
....
With this, jboss starts and prints the message that my datasource is bound to java:/jdbc/DataSource. If I write my code as:
DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:/jdbc/DataSource");
everyone's happy, but if I try to write it as:
DataSource ds = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("jdbc/DataSource");
I get the dreaded "jdbc Not bound" message.
--> Is this a "solvable" problem, and if so, can anyone show me how?
Thanks for bearing with me :)
Best Regards,
J Ramos
