Tomcat’s DataSources Suck
I’m probably stating the obvious, but I spent wayyyy too much time wrestling with Tomcat’s admin app trying to get a datasource that I previously had working functional again. Even though the datasource gets added “globally”, when I look up my datasource by name, it claims it can’t find it. Oh well.
Tomcat 5 doesn’t even like how I had datasources working in Tomcat 4. It appears I need some sort of pooled connection, instead of just plugging in com.mysql.jdbc.Driver and telling Tomcat to create a javax.sql.DataSource. I suppose I’ll be looking into the Apache Pooled Database stuff. Maybe I’ll even look into Jetty Plus.