I am receiving a "no suitable driver found" error when I test my web service on tomcat. I have the JDBC .jar in the lib folder as various tutorials says to do. Here is my code:
public class PostDBConnection {
PreparedStatement st;
ResultSet rs;
Connection con;
DataSource ds;
InitialContext cxt;
String url = "jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/UptonDB";
String user = "*****";
String password = "*******";
String query = "";
StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
@SuppressWarnings("unused")
public String getInfo(){
int size = 0;
try {
cxt = new InitialContext();
ds = (DataSource) cxt.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/UptonDB");
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
try{
try {
Class.forName("org.postgres.Driver");
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, password);
st = con.prepareStatement("SELECT VERSION()");
rs = st.executeQuery();
while(rs.next())
{
response.append(rs.getString(1));
}
}
catch(SQLException exc)
{
Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(PostDBConnection.class.getName());
lgr.log(Level.SEVERE, exc.getMessage(), exc);
}
finally {
try {
if (rs != null) {
rs.close();
}
if (st != null) {
st.close();
}
if (con != null) {
con.close();
}
} catch (SQLException ex) {
Logger lgr = Logger.getLogger(PostDBConnection.class.getName());
lgr.log(Level.WARNING, ex.getMessage(), ex);
}
}
return response.toString();
}
Also here are the web.xml and context.xml files I created by following instructions on the Tomcat website:
<resource-ref>
<description>PostgreSQL Data Source </description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/UptonDB</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
<Resource name="jdbc/UptonDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
removeAbandoned="true" removeAbandonedTimeout="30" maxActive="80"
maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" username="*****" password="*******"
driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
url = "jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1:5432/UptonDB" useUnicode="true"
characterEncoding="utf-8" characterSetResults="utf8"/>
</Context>
Any help is appreciated thanks!