SEVERE: Unable to create initial connections of pool - tomcat 7 with context.xml file

Question

I tried to run project on tomcat 7.0.52 and initialize to DB through context.xml file.

But it throws bunch of exceptions, I couldn\'t figur

Answer 1

When you encounter exceptions like this, the most useful information is generally at the bottom of the stacktrace:

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
  at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
  ...
  at org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.PooledConnection.connectUsingDriver(PooledConnection.java:246)

The problem is that Tomcat can't find com.mysql.jdbc.Driver. This is usually caused by the JAR containing the MySQL driver not being where Tomcat expects to find it (namely in the webapps//WEB-INF/lib directory).