Configure hibernate to connect to database via JNDI Datasource

Question

Hi all I\'m using Hibernate+Struts2+Tomcat6+Mysql as my J2EE framework. I\'ve been using hibernate\'s built-in connection pooling mechanism but it turned out to be problemat

Answer 1

Tomcat-7 JNDI configuration:

Steps:

1. Open the server.xml in the tomcat-dir/conf
2. Add below tag with your DB details inside

3. Save the server.xml file
4. Open the context.xml in the tomcat-dir/conf
5. Add the below inside the tag.

6. Save the context.xml
7. Open the hibernate-cfg.xml file and add and remove below properties.

Adding:
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java:comp/env/jdbc/mydb

Removing:
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8. Save the file and put latest .WAR file in tomcat.
9. Restart the tomcat. the DB connection will work.