Took some time to realize an opening tag was missing in the code to be included in the server.xml file.
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<Resource name="jdbc/BooksDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
<parameter>
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should be
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<Resource name="jdbc/BooksDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"/>
<ResourceParams name="jdbc/BooksDB" >
<parameter>
...
Why is there no no errata of this book to be found?
Ch 13 p 484 missing <ResourceParams> opening tag
