I discovered I had an older version of context.xml in $CATALINA_H0ME/conf I got rid of the Cannot load JDBC driver class '.SQLServerDriver' error. dbcp.SQLNestedException : Cannot load JDBC driver class '.SQLServerDriver'Īt .( BasicDataSource.java:766 )Īt .( BasicDataSource.java:540 )Īt ( VisitBean.java:470 )Īt _jsp._jspService( logonHandler_jsp.java:84 )Īt .rvice( HttpJspBase.java:70 )Īt .service( HttpServlet.java:803 )Īt .rvice( JspServletWrapper.java:384 )Īt .rviceJspFile( JspServlet.java:320 )Īt .rvice( JspServlet.java:266 )Īt .ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter( ApplicationFilterChain.java:290 )Īt .ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter( ApplicationFilterChain.java:206 )Īt .StandardWrapperValve.invoke( StandardWrapperValve.java:228 )Īt .StandardContextValve.invoke( StandardContextValve.java:175 )Īt .StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:128 )Īt .ErrorReportValve.invoke( ErrorReportValve.java:104 )Īt .StandardEngineValve.invoke( StandardEngineValve.java:109 )Īt .rvice( CoyoteAdapter.java:216 )Īt 11.Http11Processor.process( Http11Processor.java:844 )Īt 11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process( Http11Protocol.java:634 )Īt .net.JIoEndpoint$n( JIoEndpoint.java:445 )Ĭaused by: : .SQLServerDriverĪt $1.run(Unknown Source)Īt ( Native Method ) Where would I place a call to Class.forName('.SQLServerDriver')? println( 'Looking up jdbc/DefaultDS' ) ĭataSource ds = ()jndiCntx.lookup( 'java:comp/env/jdbc/DefaultDS' ) I have verified that sqljdbc.jar resides in 'WebRoot/WEB-INF/lib/'Ĭontext envCtx = (Context) ctx.lookup('java:comp/env') ĭataSource ds = (DataSource) envCtx.lookup('jdbc/DefaultDS') /*This is generating the Cannot load JDBC driver class.

I am trying to use connection pooling to connect to a local SQL Server 2005 database.

I have read similar posts to this, but I am still having problems.

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