I am new to JBOSS and have followed the examples in the JBOSS 3.0 html docs for setting up JDBC connection pooling with ORACLE. I have never succeeded in casting the retrieved DataSource to the javax.sql.DataSource interface. The below code snippet throws a class cast exception:
// Get a reference to the datasource
DataSource ds = (DataSource)jndiContext.lookup("java:/OracleDS");
The cast exception is: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.JDBCDataSource
So I had to explicitly cast to the org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.JDBCDataSource and things seem to work.
The odd thing is that the org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc.JDBCDataSource claims to implement javax.sql.DataSource. Why does this not work? Has anyone actually tried to cast to a javax.sql.DataSource and had this work?
I am using jboss-3.0.0beta and jakarta-tomcat-4.0.2 and I am using the following in my service.xml file to setup my JDBC connection:
ConnectionURL=jdbc:oracle:thin:@MyMachine:1521:MyORCL
DriverClass=oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver
OracleDS
java:/TransactionManager
<depends optional-attribute-name="ResourceAdapterName">jboss.jca:service=RARDeployment,name=Minerva JDBC LocalTransaction ResourceAdapter
<depends optional-attribute-name="ConnectionManagerFactoryLoaderName">jboss.jca:service=ConnectionManagerFactoryLoader,name=MinervaSharedLocalCMFactory
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BlockingTimeoutMillis=50000
IdleTimeoutMinutes=30
MaxSize=10
CleanupIntervalMinutes=10
MinSize=0
MaxIdleTimeoutPercent=1.0
org.jboss.resource.security.ManyToOnePrincipalMapping
userName=jw
password=jw
