Re: Tomcat & JDBC

Wow!! You must be able to see my computer...
It was exactly what's needed. I guess it was the
typical newbie question??

In anycase, thanks a lot, Greg!!

Tony

Greg Speegle wrote:

> I was able to get tomcat to work with postgres by putting the jar file
> in /usr/local/tomcat/lib, which is the default place for tomcat to look
> for libraries in my installation.
>
> Also, are you using the right jar file? I know you can name it whatever
> you want, but the download name I have is jdbc7_0-1_2.jar, while the
> old jar file was called postgresql.jar.
>
> Good luck,
> Greg Speegle
>
> Tony Nakamura wrote:
>
> > Thanks everyone for the help on JDBC. I finally got JDBC to work.
> > ....of course, I am facing an another one. So please help me if you could.
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > My DB connection works perfectly when I am writing an application, but
> > it gives the ClassNotFoundException error when I write a servlet. I am
> > pretty
> > sure it's the setting for tomcat that I am using. I have set following in
> > the tomcat.properties
> > file:
> >
> > wrapper.bin.parameters=-Djdbc.drivers=org.postgresql.Driver
> > wrapper.classpath=/usr/local/lib/postgresql.jar
> >
> > I am also setting the CLASSPATH environmental variable, so
> > I've tried wrapper.bin.parameter=NONE and didn't work.
> >
> > Tony