I spent now several hours searching the google groups without finding
an solution. I am kind of Newbie to DB2 and JSP and therefore working
with JSP4Dummies (not sure whether I should recommend this book):
Invoking the following jsp-file in the browser I get an

I tried to set up a database connection pool by following exactly the instructions in Tomcat 5 JNDI Datasource HOW-TO. But I got the following exception:
org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null', cause:
java.sql ...

Is there a JDBC driver specifically for MSDE?
I'm running MSDE 200 Rel A on a Windows XP machine.
- manzoor

Is it possible to use a CLOB on a Weblogic 5.1? If so, how can I do it? I'm
using WL 5.1 with Oracle 8.1.7
Thanks in advance.
                                    Fran

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an article about this.
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I have downloaded the MS SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Evaluation edition, and
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I have installed and configured the MS SQL Server 2000 onto two computers,
which reside on the same network.  (In fact, these two computers comprise

Suppose I get a connection from a connection pool, and during my use of
the connection it goes bad (say, the socket it's using to talk to the
database breaks). When I return that connection to the connection pool,
will the pool realize it's bad and not reuse it?

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must be registered before the CallableStatement object can be executed.
pls suggest me what is meaning of registering and where it registers?

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store a potentially large data structure. I'd like to have as ...

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TIA

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it free of cost) equivalent to the Ado.Net. That is, any means to
directly bind data from a database or a XML file to visual components
like ListBoxes, ComboButtons, etc...