JAB (Just Another Blogger)Blogger about Sun Certification and all Java Web related technologies and problems.Tomcat 5 - Datasource - DB connections blocked- December 29, 2003 After changing from Poolman to the Tomcat 5 datasource I was rather pleased that I got rid of Poolman for various reasons. See earlier blog. But a disaster had to follow; I knew it but only till later. I was finally able to follow the standard way of deploying a web-application. Even if it meant that the structure of deployment is not according to the way I wanted and would not desire. I really wanted to place all my configuration settings in my WAR file and not just place a WAR file and a...http://www.jroller.com/thomasdevos/entry/tomcat_5_datasource_db_connections SCBCD Online Study notes- December 16, 2003 My friend Michael Cogan is working currently on an online book that covers all the aspect of the Sun Certified Business Component Developer exam. The online book covers all the required topics and does a very good job to layout all the objectives for the exam. He is keeping everyone who is going and studying for their exam interested and informed by blogging on an almost daily basis his progress. As for me interested in Sun certification it works rather well and becomes addicted. If you are.http://www.jroller.com/thomasdevos/entry/scbcd_online_study_notes The power of open source- December 16, 2003 Everytime when I look into a open source project I'm astonished with the quality of the products that are freely available. Last night I had a go with Ant and XDoclet. The combination of both technologies let me create multiple web applications from the same base application. The base code was already geared up for multiple distribution but needed copying in the past and as a result maintaining in several places. This is real power.http://www.jroller.com/thomasdevos/entry/the_power_of_open_source Ant - Very long directory structure- December 10, 2003 While I was using Ant from within Eclipse I noticed that all my files were copied every time I ran the Ant script. I was not bothered at that moment and just wanted to do what I was doing, I didn't investigated further. However when I ran again I got plenty of errors from Ant and then the investigation started: I noticed that I had created the following directory...http://www.jroller.com/thomasdevos/entry/ant_very_long_directory_structure Tomcat 5 Datasource vs. Poolman- December 10, 2003 For a long time I have been using Poolman as the database connection pooling to my Postgres database. I was having problems with Poolman, so I decided to change the application code to use a datasource defined in Tomcat 5. However, I don't feel comfortable: the datasource is defined in server.xml and the postgresql driver has to be placed under commonlib, this means globally defined for the deployed web applications. I understand the capabilities of having a global datasource and the web...http://www.jroller.com/thomasdevos/entry/tomcat_5_datasource_poolman |