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I sometimes see JDBC data sources specified in JNDI that use the “jdbc” path. For example, the following (for Tomcat6):
<Resource name="jdbc/myAppDS" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
..... />
But then other times I see it without the “jdbc” in the JNDI path name. Is using the “jdbc” just a convention? Is it typical? Where are these things documented?
It’s just convention. You can call the resource whatever you like, but if you have many resources defined in your context, using a standard prefix makes it easier to identify what kind of resource it actually is.
In a similar fashion, a JavaBean resource would conventionally begin with
bean/and a Mail resource would begin withmail/.