I had a problem compiling the example application in the book.

The method "getDataSource" was not recognized and is not part of the javax.sql.DataSource class. Is there an API I need to download from Jakarta or Sun? I wasn't able to find the method within my libraries.

I was able to successfully cast the Request object into a DataSource object w/out using the getDataSource method, but after compiling the java code, the application doesn't seem to be able to write or read from the database.

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

Hi,

The "getDataSource" method is only available in the Action class of the struts framework. Please see

http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/api...on/Action.html

for more info. It seems as if getting the DataSource is confined within this particular class. I am trying to get the DataSource within a DAO and Servlet, but to no avail. Perhaps a look at the source for this class might shed some light on how to do this.

For the time being, I suggest adding a <Resource> within the <Context> of the webapp your are using in the /CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml, then use:

Context initContext = new InitialContext();
Context envContext = (Context)initContext.lookup("java:comp/env");

DataSource ds = (DataSource)envContext.lookup("YOUR_JNDI_DATASOURC E_NAME HERE ");

It worked for me.

Has anyone found that this has not worked? Thanks for posting the link, Ivan!

XUMUSKIEFAN
Wrox Moderator

I also needed the datasource in my model class and so passed it as a paramater from the Action class.

I probaly only needed it in my model class because of bad design encapsulation, but adding the following import statment in my model let me get away with it...

import javax.sql.DataSource;