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Problems with Tomcat8 using connection pooling to OracleDB

We have an application provided by a 3rd party vendor that runs on Tomcat 8 and JDK 8 to an Oracle 12 DB with ojdbc7.jar & xdb6.jar driver. The application works, but is slower than expected. When investigating it appears the application is configured to use connection pooling, but it appears the application is creating new connections per query, and not using any of the initially created connections to the Database.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to the code of the 3rd party app. But, hoping for an idea on what I am missing in the Tomcat setting to have pooling work.
I've tried going through Apache's documentation for the older Oracle connections, and trying other options found on the web.
<Resource name="jdbc/DataSource" auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:#localhost:1521:XE"
username="myProxyUser" password="myPassword"
initialSize="5" maxTotal="100" maxIdle="-1"
maxWaitMillis="30000"
validationQuery="select 1 from dual"
testOnBorrow="true"
accessToUnderlyingConnectionAllowed = "true"
connectionProperties="defaultRowPrefetch=100"
removeAbandoned = "true"
removeAbandonedTimeout = "30"/>

You can check tomcat docs, mainly use factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
example on how to configure a resource for JNDI lookups
<Resource name="jdbc/TestDB"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
testWhileIdle="true"
testOnBorrow="true"
testOnReturn="false"
validationQuery="SELECT 1"
validationInterval="30000"
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="30000"
maxActive="100"
minIdle="10"
maxWait="10000"
initialSize="10"
removeAbandonedTimeout="60"
removeAbandoned="true"
logAbandoned="true"
minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="30000"
jmxEnabled="true"
jdbcInterceptors="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.interceptor.ConnectionState;
org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.interceptor.StatementFinalizer"
username="root"
password="password"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql"/>

you can specify pooling by defining type and factory
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"

Tomcat not executing the correct realm

I am working on a tomcat 7 webapp that I recently inherited. We are working on migrating from Tomcat 5.5.
The webapp uses a tomcat realm to handle a combination of ldap/sql authentication.
When I define my context.xml as follows
<Context docBase="*******" reloadable="false">
<Realm className="com.******.tomcat.auth.LdapSqlRealm"
****
/>
<Resource name="jdbc/*****"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
testWhileIdle="true"
testOnBorrow="true"
testOnReturn="false"
validationQuery="SELECT 1"
validationInterval="30000"
timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="60000"
maxActive="15"
maxIdle="15"
maxWait="30000"
initialSize="10"
removeAbandonedTimeout="60"
removeAbandoned="true"
logAbandoned="true"
minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="60000"
numTestsPerEvictionRun="2"
jmxEnabled="true"
jdbcInterceptors="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.interceptor.ConnectionState;
org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.interceptor.StatementFinalizer"
username="*****"
password="*****"
driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
url="*****"
/></Context>
I can see my realm initializing in the logs, but when I go to authenticate (using basic) it doesn't use my realm.
If I define the realm in the server.xml file it works just fine.
Any thoughts on why I can't define it in the context.xml.
Our context.xml file is actually located in cont/Catalina/localhost/*****.xml
I have tried starting from scratch with simple realms, or extensions of RealmBase and they all do the same thing.
Thanks,
Travis

Turns out that I had an extra <Context /> tag in my <Host /> tag in my server.xml which was messing up my context.xml file.
Little Santi tipped me off by suggesting a vanilla build of tomcat, which I didn't end up doing, but I did a compare of server.xml from the two and spotted the issue right away. Wish I had thought of it sooner.

Tomcat Server fails to start

Problem:
When I try to add following code to context.xml of Tomcat 7 It gives this error.
(NOTE: I'm adding this code from inside the Eclipse)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context>
<!-- Default set of monitored resources -->
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
<Resource
name="jdbc/UsersDB"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="100"
maxIdle="30"
maxWait="10000"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/usersDB"
username="root"
password="secret"
/>
</Context>
Error:
Could not load the Tomcat server configuration at \Servers\Tomcat v7.0 Server at localhost-config. The configuration may be corrupt or incomplete.
Element type "Resource" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>".
And when I remove this code and save context.xml , Server starts successfully without doing anything (Refreshing and all).
What I have tried:
Referred This question:
publishing failed with multiple errors eclipse
Tried closing Eclipse and opening again.
Tried closing and opening peoject again.
Nothing is working.
What should I try Now?
UPDATE:
Tomcat server started successfully. I just typed everything in context.xml rather than copy paste the code. It could be some encoding problem I guess in copy pasting the code directly into eclipse file.

This is how it should look . Resource should be properly enclosed within the Context. Like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/webAppName">
<Resource
name="jdbc/UsersDB"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="100"
maxIdle="30"
maxWait="10000"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/usersDB"
username="root"
password="secret" />
</Context>

I have similar thing working. All the difference - I have one single row, not multiple lines like you have. Try it in a single row. Plus before you copy it to eclipse, try copy it to notepad, or another simple editor to remove invalid chars.

Tomcat SQL doesn't refresh

I have a Java RESTful Webservice running on Tomcat7 in Ubuntu.
When I change fields in the Database the Webservice returns the old values.
When i restart the service, it returns the new values.
this is my Context.xml:
<Context>
<Resource name="jdbc/schischule"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://IP:3306/Skischul_DB"
username="admin"
password="pwd"
maxActive="20"
maxIdle="30"
maxWait="-1"
/>
</Context>
Has anyone an idea why Tomcat doesn't refresh the data?
THX

Configure SQL Server connection pool on Tomcat

I've been trying to configure a connection pool for a SQL Server 2012 database. I currently have Informix and Oracle pools configured and working, only SQL Server is giving me a headache. This is how my resource on Context.xml looks so far:
<Resource name="jdbc/sqlserv"
auth="Container"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
driverClass="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
maxActive="50"
maxIdle="10"
maxWait="15000"
username="username"
password="password"
url="jdbc:sqlserver://127.0.0.1:1433;databaseName=SQLDB;"
removeAbandoned="true"
removeAbandonedTimeout="30"
logAbandoned="true" />
That's using sqljdbc4 driver, of course. We already tried using jtds-1.3.0 with the driverClass="net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver", but no go. All the resource-refs are also being correctly configured. Whenever I try to create a new connection using that Resource, it fails.
For comparison's sake, here's how our Informix and Oracle resources look like:
<Resource name="jdbc/infmx"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
factory="org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
maxActive="50"
maxIdle="10"
maxWait="15000"
username="username"
password="password"
driverClassName="com.informix.jdbc.IfxDriver"
url="jdbc:informix-sqli://localhost:30091/infmx:informixserver=ol_infmx_soc"
removeAbandoned="true"
removeAbandonedTimeout="30"
logAbandoned="true"/>
<Resource name="jdbc/orcl"
auth="Container"
type="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource"
driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
factory="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSourceFactory"
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:#127.0.0.1:1521:orcl"
user="username"
password="password"
maxActive="50"
maxIdle="10"
maxWait="15000" />
So My question is: How can I correctly configure a connection pool for SQL Server 2012 on my tomcat context? I've searched high and low, attempted everything I've found, but nothing worked.
Thanks in advance.
[edit] Here's the stack trace: http://pastebin.com/w3rZSERs
[edit-2] It seems the problem is that Tomcat can't find the driver on his lib folder. We're pretty sure it's there, but we don't know to be sure of that. This happens with both sqljdbc4 and jtds-1.3.0. We're following every guideline we can find, but the problem persists.

We found our problem.
driverClass="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
Should have been
driverClassName="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"

It seems to me that the java side is correctly configured.
Can you access the server using another JDBC connection (for example SquirrelSQL or similar software)?
If you can't access to the server using Squirrel, maybe you did not enable the TCP/IP access to your server, in this case, follow the accepted answer of Enable remote connections for SQL Server Express 2012