J. wrote:
> I am a novice, but thought it would make more sense to post this
> here. I'm trying to write a basic webstore app for a school project
> and I'm having trouble getting more than one servlet to access the
> database connection. I tried the method described on the PostgreSQL
> site - as I understood it. That entailed opening a connection in one
> servlet and then having code like this in other servlets that need
> connections:
Don't attempt to put your datasource in the session. Use a database
pool instead, and then just do a JNDI lookup to obtain a connection
wherever you need it. If you are using Tomcat as your servlet
container, it has built-in support for datasources. Post back if you
need help in configuring that.
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Guy Rouillier