Question

I have a servlet that I would like to run within ColdFusion MX 7. I would like to make use of an existing ColdFusion DSN as a javax.sql.DataSource, if possible.

I thought something like

coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory.getDataSourceService().getDatasource(dsname); 

would work, but unfortunately the servlet returns

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: coldfusion/server/ServiceFactory 

Answer 1

It seems the simplest way to do this is to add an additional JNDI datasource into jrun-resources.xml. This can then be accessed in the conventional way:

Context context = new InitialContext(); DataSource ds = (DataSource)context.lookup('mydatasource');  

It does mean duplicating database connection configuration, but I would rather do this than work with the largely undocumented coldfusion.server.* classes.