Bug 55444 - Support JDBC Drivers outside of tomcat/lib/
Summary: Support JDBC Drivers outside of tomcat/lib/
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 53853
Alias: None
Product: Tomcat Modules
Classification: Unclassified
Component: jdbc-pool (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomcat Developers Mailing List
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Reported: 2013-08-18 02:54 UTC by dblevins
Modified: 2014-08-07 23:25 UTC (History)
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Patch for loading from Thread context classloader (2.45 KB, text/plain)
2013-08-18 02:54 UTC, dblevins 		Details
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Description dblevins 2013-08-18 02:54:12 UTC 
Created attachment 30742 [details]
Patch for loading from Thread context classloader

We use the Tomcat jdbc pooling code in TomEE by default and would like to allow users to put drivers in alternate locations than the server lib/ directory.  Motivation is some users have reported need to support different versions of the same driver class to be able to connect to different versions of the same database .

The attached patch uses the same classloading logic first, if that fails it tries again using the Thread context classloader.
Comment 1 Filip Hanik 2014-08-07 23:25:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 53853 ***