Re: Tomcat - PostgreSQL - Cannot load JDBC driver class "null" - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On 26/09/2003 17:29 CRAIG GOLBY wrote:
> [snip]
>   public void init() {
>     try{
>       Context ctx = new InitialContext();
>       if(ctx == null )
>           throw new Exception("Boom - No Context");
>       status = "checking CTX";
>
>       DataSource ds =
> (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/PersonalDb");
>       status = "Completing Lookup of CTX";
>
>       if (ds != null)
>         {
>          status = "Creating Connection";
>          Connection conn = ds.getConnection();   <----- FAILS HERE

With a NullPointerException I presume? Try

       DataSource ds =
(DataSource)ctx.lookupLink("java:comp/env/jdbc/PersonalDb");

And rememeber that the JDBC driver _must_ be in common/lib and _must not_
be in the classpath.

HTH

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