Bug#401222: tomcat5.5: Can't load JDBC driver jar when needed (more general problem ?)

[kaouete]

Package: tomcat5.5
Version: 5.5.20-2
Severity: important

Hi,

I was trying to test a simple webapp using a jndi declared jdbc
datasource but i couldn't make it work.

After a lot of test and the help of people on #tomcat on freenode, this
is what i can say :
1) i am using tomcat 5.5 from unstable, with sun-java5-jdk and mysql5.0,
i downloaded the mysql connectorJ 5.0.3 and i put it in
/usr/share/tomcat5.5/common/lib like the tomcat website tells me to do.
2) my app works on a server installed by hand with the downloaded
binaries from tomcat website.
3) my app doesnt work on debian with and without the security manager
4) i tried to run tomcat with -verbose:class in the CATALINA_OPTS and i
can say that the class needed by the DriverManager
(com.mysql.jdb.Driver) wasnt loaded, but other classes from common/lib
were.

I think there is a real problem with the debian tomcat package and a guy
from #tomcat said to me the same thing.


Thanks you for your work on tomcat, 

kaouete



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Versions of packages tomcat5.5 depends on:
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ii  apache2-utils               2.2.3-3.1    utility programs for webservers
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