posted 21 years ago
Hi!
I have been using a connection pool manager for my applications for a long time and it works fine. So now, I need to export its functionality to struts-way-of-doing-things.
My DBConnectionManager takes its properties (user, pass, URL, maxConn, minConn, ...) from a db.properties file. Migrating to struts-way I've seen that all that properties are specified in the <data-source> tag.
Ok. Now come my questions:
1.- the <data-source> tag has a "key" attribute. How can I reach it? I mean, once I give a name to that pool in the struts-config.xml file (I undertand this will be the name of my pool), I need to reference it somehow in my application to create a release() method that let me to empty the pool.
2.- the className attribute of the <data-source> tag makes me to create a extended DataSourceConfig class. Do I really need to create another class? is the properties field not enough? the class has the addProperty() method (which I don't know where to use)...
3.- I understand that I have to access that class extending DataSourceConfig from my ActionServlet, but I don't have the faintest idea of how to do it...
4.- Finally, I understand the type attribute is the one that references my DBConnectionManager. Do I have to change my class, making it an implementation of javax.sql.dataSource? Originally my class was a singlenton in the common package. If I need two or more applications accessing it, can it still be a singleton? or would two distinct applications accessing the same singleton class interfere with eachother?
Thanks a lot..
Nacho