Setting up a datasource with WebSphere Liberty Profile 8.5

Question

My web app is getting a data source from JNDI with:

javax.naming.InitialContext ctx = new javax.naming.InitialContext();
javax.sql.DataSource ds = (javax.sql         


        

Answer 1

In my case, the solution below works fine for me.

I created a "Generic project" in Eclipse called "Resources". Inside this project I created a file dataSource.xml with following content:

And I drag and drop this file for server configuration in Eclipse or create the line in server.xml:

The file server.xml was like this:

    
    
        jsp-2.3
        adminCenter-1.0
        jdbc-4.1
        jndi-1.0
        servlet-3.1
    

    

                     


    


     



  ${server.config.dir}