Websphere using JDBC

[Tom Henricksen]

We develop using Eclipse and Tomcat and then deploy to Websphere. We are trying to use JDBC from Websphere. To do this we have to edit the ibm-web-bnd.xmi and add

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<com.ibm.ejs.models.base.bindings.webappbnd:WebAppBinding xmi:version="2.0" xmlns:xmi="http://www.omg.org/XMI" xmlns:com.ibm.ejs.models.base.bindings.webappbnd="webappbnd.xmi" xmi:id="WebAppBinding_1204038443298" jndiName="jdbc/medtrn" virtualHostName="default_host">
<webapp href="WEB-INF/web.xml#WebApp_1204038443298"/>
</com.ibm.ejs.models.base.bindings.webappbnd:WebAppBinding>

Is there a way for Eclipse to generate this file of something we can add to web.xml to avoid this?

I have seen some things that add resource-ref to the web.xml.

Thanks in advance,
Tom

[Brian Stelzer]

The binding files in WebSphere Application Server V6.1 can be pretty cryptic( cross referencing between standard J2EE DD and the IBM .xmi files ).

I would suggest not trying to manually edit those files.

You can bind your resources in your J2EE DD to WebSphere's physical resources at application installation time which will automatically generate this binding file for you.

or

You can download "WebSphere Application Server Toolkit" which is a stripped down version of Rational Application Developer which you can use to develop
your application and create the bindings at development time. If you have a
license for WebSphere Application Server V6.1 then you should have access to the toolkit.

If I missed the intent of your question please let me know as I am not 100% sure I understood the question.