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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse
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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

by Ram Kulkarni
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
596 pages
12h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring datasources in GlassFish

In Chapter 4, Creating JEE Database Applications, we created the JDBC datasource locally in the application. In this chapter, we will create a JDBC datasource in GlassFish. GlassFish Server is not packaged with the JDBC driver for MySQL. So, we need to place the .jar file for MySQLDriver in the path where GlassFish can find it. You can place such external libraries in the lib/ext folder of the GlassFish domain in which you want to deploy your application. For this example, we will copy the JAR in <glassfish_home>/glassfish/domains/domain1/lib/ext.

If you do not have the MySQL JDBC driver, you can download it from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/:

  1. Open the GlassFish admin console, either by ...
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