BasicDataSourceFactory class not found in Tomcat

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Hello,

I’m trying to make a Tomcat server webapp, developed on Fedora 8/9 with Tomcat 5.* work on openSUSE 11.0, with Tomcat 6. It misses the class org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory .
The developer said that on Fedora this class is in /usr/share/java/commons-dbcp-tomcat5-1.2.1.jar which is in the package jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat5 . I installed java-commons-dbcp which does not contain this class, and the openSUSE 11.0 repository does not contain a -tomcat package (of course I would need for tomcat6, so something like jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat6).

Could you help how should I get that class for openSUSE 11.0?

Here is the stack trace from the log:
2008.07.09. 18:38:26 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet Login threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Login javax.naming.NamingException: Could not
create resource factory instance [Root exception is
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory]
at SqlCmd.<init>(SqlCmd.java:40)
at Login.doPost(Login.java:52)
at Login.doGet(Login.java:142)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:690)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:128)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:286)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:844)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:583)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:447)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

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I always install tomcat using the binary distribution packages from Tomcat’s site. I occasionally reuse SuSE’s init script and deployment layout.

If you use Tomcat’s site’s binary packages, it won’t be necessary for you to install any other library (well, maybe jsf’s if you need them).

Try what I suggest and tell me if it works. If it does not, then I guess there is a problem with that web application. I am advancing the idea that it is using tomcat’s specific implementation libraries. Normally, a portable application should only use the specification defined interfaces which are implemented by the vendor’s libraries (in this case tomcat’s).

If there is a problem, post the relevant code: I’ll try to help.

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the tomcat-dbcp.jar which ships with the binary tomcat distribution from apache seems to be missing …