RE: Adding new jars to Tomcat library.

2009-07-08 Thread SarcasmMonster
Thanks. I knew about the alternative, but I was hoping I can take advantage of IOC. Whatever :sleep: >Not if you want Tomcat to manage the DB connection pool. Installing the JDBC driver jar is a one-time thing; can't you >schedule a few-second outage at some convenient time? The reason why I as

Re: Adding new jars to Tomcat library.

2009-07-08 Thread SarcasmMonster
Thanks for the reply. Is there a way to get around this? I'd like to be able to do something like this http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/jndi-datasource-examples-howto.html without restarting Tomcat. As far as I can tell from the article, I need the jars in CATALINA_HOME/lib/. -- View this

Adding new jars to Tomcat library.

2009-07-08 Thread SarcasmMonster
In Tomcat 6.0, when I add a new jar to the CATALINA_HOME/lib/ do I have to restart Tomcat before it's picked up? I added an MySQL jars so I can use the JNDI datasource but it is getting a class not found when I deploy my app. When I restarted my test Tomcat, it found it. I thought that class loadi