Question

I am trying to set up connection pooling to mysql databe with tomcat. My simple app is called Projekt, in my Projekt.xml in Apache/conf/Catalina/localhost I have

<Context docBase="Projekt.war" path="/Projekt">
  <Resource name="jdbc/mysqldb"
      auth="Container"
  factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
      type="javax.sql.DataSource"
      driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
      url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/Music"
      username="andrzej"
      password="qazxsw"
      maxActive="20"
      maxIdle="30"
      maxWait="5"
  />
</Context> 

web.xml of my app

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.jtp.HelloServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>HelloServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/Hai</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

<resource-ref>     
        <description>DB Connection</description>     
       <res-ref-name>jdbc/mysqldb</res-ref-name>     
       <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>     
       <res-auth>Container</res-auth>     
 </resource-ref>

and in my Apache/lib folder I have

mysql-connector-java-5.1.18-bin.jar

but when I execute this code:

Context initContext  = new InitialContext();
dataSource = (DataSource)initContext.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/mysqldb");
System.out.println(dataSource.getConnection().createStatement().
            execute("select * from Users"));

I get exception

org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null'

I am puzzled now, in some places I read that it may be caused by not placing driver in tomcat/lib, but I have it and it works, because when I tested the driver with manual connections it worked.

For my setup I was trying to follow
http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/jdbc-pool/jdbc-pool.html

EDIT:
Finally got it working, it seemed that I had some left context tags in one of the files so when parsing he overriden other attributes, so it is all my fault at the end.

Answer 1

Looks like you are missing Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
JNDI lookup should be done like this:

// Obtain our environment naming context
Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");

// Look up our data source
DataSource ds = (DataSource) envCtx.lookup("jdbc/EmployeeDB");

// Allocate and use a connection from the pool
Connection conn = ds.getConnection(); 

documentation from http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/jndi-resources-howto.html.