| [vtp-dev] Database access via the VTP |
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I am finding the database access in the VTP to be hard to
work with. I am using the current baseline and Eclipse 3.4.2 and it
seems that when I want to use JNDI to connect to my database that I have to
deploy the application, then manually update the web.xml file for my
application to insert a <resource-ref> entry. Then I have to create a
context file for my application with the required “Resource” entry
down inside the Tomcat folders on my application server. Once all that is done
I can connect to my database and it works OK from there on. I can see that I can add my web.xml entries to the
org.eclipse.vtp.desktop.projects.core/resources/web.xml file and then they will
appear in my deployed application. However Tomcat is destroying my context file
which I then have to recreate every time I deploy my application. I’m
guessing that I can stop this file deletion from happening by taking Tomcat off
of auto-deploy – but that is a guess. Is someone working on getting this database action to work
so that it is more ‘wizard-like’ and does not require so much
manual intervention? Thanks, Tom |