Question

I am connecting to an oracle database using a connection pool. I have set up my datasource file but when I try to get a connection I get the error

The method getConnection() is undefined for the type DataSource

I have searched the internet and it doesn’t seem to be a common problem. I am not sure what I have done wrong.

The code is:

<datasources>  
<local-tx-datasource>  
    <jndi-name>DefaultDS</jndi-name>  
    <connection-url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@ED.OPTO:1521:OPY>  
    <driver-class>oracle.driver.OracleDriver</driver-class>  
    <user-name>temiuser</user-name>  
    <password>password</password>  
 </local-tx-datasource>  

import javax.activation.DataSource;
import javax.naming.Context;
import javax.naming.InitialContext;
import java.sql.*;
import javax.sql.*;


public class dataSource {

    // load the driver
    Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver");

    String sourceFile = "java:/TVEContent";
    InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
    DataSource ds = (DataSource)ic.lookup(sourceFile);
    Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
    Statement stmnt = conn.createStatement("select * from tve");

}

Please help!!!!

Answer 1

Name clash: import javax.sql.DataSource;

BTW should it not be ic.lookup("DefaultDS") (unsure at the moment)?