Question

I’ve been playing with Java and mysql for awhile. But my first time using it with Tomcat. Are the commands the same, because as far as I can tell its the commands that aren’t working.

So far I’ve got it connecting, and I know this because its maxing out my mysql connections so I have to shut down the Tomcat.

This is my code for the connection and a drop table experiment:

public void connect() throws SQLException, NamingException{

    Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
    Context envCtx = (Context) initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");
    DataSource ds = (DataSource) envCtx.lookup("jdbc/TestDB");
    con = ds.getConnection();

    dropTables("DROP TABLE test;");

    con.close();
}


public void dropTables(String query) throws SQLException{

    Statement st = (Statement)con.createStatement();        
    st.executeUpdate(query);

}

As soon as I uncomment the dropTables, I get HTTP 500.

Any thoughts?

TIA

Here is the error:

SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet myServlet threw exception
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.DelegatingStatement cannot be cast to com.mysql.jdbc.Statement
    at myServlet.dropTables(myServlet.java:90)
    at myServlet.connect(myServlet.java:82)
    at myServlet.doPost(myServlet.java:50)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:470)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
    at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProcessor.process(AjpAprProcessor.java:431)
    at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpAprProtocol$AjpConnectionHandler.process(AjpAprProtocol.java:384)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1665)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Answer 1

Your code is throwing an exception in the dropTables method. The exception is halting execution, of the connect method and preventing you from closing the connection. This prevents the connection from being returned to the connection pool which causes you to run out of connections. It is also causing the 500 error.

You can fix your ClassCastException by changing dropTables to this:

public void dropTables(String query) throws SQLException{
    con.createStatement().executeUpdate(query);
}

Also, I recommend that you enclose your JDBC code in a try-catch-finally block like so:

try{
    dropTables("DROP TABLE test;");
} catch (Exception e){
    e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    con.close();
}