Question

I know how I’d do this using JBoss: create a *-ds.xml file, and drop it into my deploy directory.

• Is there a declarative way to do the same with GlassFish (v3.1)?
• Am I thinking about this the wrong way? (See next question)
• Is there a more-Glassfishy way to get my Java EE application to talk to a database?

Other potentially-revelant info:

• I want to connect to a SQL Server 2008 database
• I’m using Eclipse + GlassFish Server Tools
• I know next to nothing about GlassFish. I’m much more familiar with JBoss

Answer 1

You can define it in application.xml or ejb-jar.xml of your EAR. You can even use annotations.

Long answer short: DataSource Resource Definition in Java EE 6.