Application Server 8.1 is designed to support connectivity to any database management system with a corresponding JDBC driver. The following JDBC driver and database combinations are supported. These combinations have been tested with Application Server 8.1 and are found to be J2EE compatible. They are also supported for CMP.
Sun Java System JDBC Driver for Oracle 8.1.7 and 9.x Databases
Sun Java System JDBC Driver for Microsoft SQL Server Databases
For an up to date list of currently supported JDBC drivers, see the Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Release Notes.
Other JDBC drivers can be used with Application Server 8.1, but J2EE compliance tests have not been completed with these drivers. Although Sun offers no product support for these drivers, Sun offers limited support of the use of these drivers with Application Server 8.1.
For details about how to integrate a JDBC driver and how to use the Administration Console or the command line interface to implement the configuration, see the Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 Administration Guide.
An Oracle database user running the capture-schema command needs ANALYZE ANY TABLE privileges if that user does not own the schema. These privileges are granted to the user by the database administrator. For information about capture-schema, see Using the capture-schema Utility.
The PointBase JDBC driver is included with the Application Server by default, except for the Solaris bundled installation, which does not include PointBase. Therefore, unless you have the Solaris bundled installation, you do not need to integrate this JDBC driver with the Application Server.
PointBase is intended for evaluation use only, not for production or deployment use.
The JAR file for the PointBase driver is pbclient.jar.
Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: PointBase
DataSource Classname:Specify one of the following:
com.pointbase.jdbc.jdbcDataSource com.pointbase.xa.xaDataSource
Properties:
The JAR files for this driver are smbase.jar, smdb2.jar, and smutil.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: DB2
DataSource Classname: com.sun.sql.jdbcx.db2.DB2DataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
portNumber - Specify the port number of the database server.
databaseName - Set as appropriate.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
URL: jdbc:sun:db2://serverName:portNumber;databaseName=databaseName
The JAR files for this driver are smbase.jar, smoracle.jar, and smutil.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Oracle
DataSource Classname: com.sun.sql.jdbcx.oracle.OracleDataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
portNumber - Specify the port number of the database server.
SID - Set as appropriate.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
URL: jdbc:sun:oracle://serverName[:portNumber][;SID=databaseName]
The JAR files for this driver are smbase.jar, smsqlserver.jar, and smutil.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: mssql
DataSource Classname: com.sun.sql.jdbcx.sqlserver.SQLServerDataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address and the port of the database server.
portNumber - Specify the port number of the database server.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
selectMethod - Set to cursor.
URL: jdbc:sun:sqlserver://serverName[:portNumber]
The JAR files for this driver are smbase.jar, smsybase.jar, and smutil.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Sybase
DataSource Classname: com.sun.sql.jdbcx.sybase.SybaseDataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
portNumber - Specify the port number of the database server.
databaseName - Set as appropriate. This is optional.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
URL: jdbc:sun:sybase://serverName[:portNumber]
The JAR files for the DB2 driver are db2jcc.jar, db2jcc_license_cu.jar, and db2java.zip. Set environment variables as follows:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/db2user/sqllib/lib:${j2ee.home}/lib DB2DIR=/opt/IBM/db2/V8.1 DB2INSTANCE=db2user INSTHOME=/usr/db2user VWSPATH=/usr/db2user/sqllib THREADS_FLAG=native
Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: DB2
DataSource Classname: com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2SimpleDataSource
Properties:
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
databaseName - Set as appropriate.
driverType - Set to 2.
deferPrepares - Set to false.
The JAR file for the Sybase driver is jconn2.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Sybase
DataSource Classname:Specify one of the following:
com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybDataSource com.sybase.jdbc2.jdbc.SybXADataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
portNumber - Specify the port number of the database server.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
databaseName - Set as appropriate. Do not specify the complete URL, only the database name.
BE_AS_JDBC_COMPLIANT_AS_POSSIBLE - Set to true.
FAKE_METADATA - Set to true.
The JAR file for the Inet Oracle driver is Oranxo.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Oracle
DataSource Classname: com.inet.ora.OraDataSource
Properties:
user - Specify the database user.
password - Specify the database password.
serviceName - Specify the URL of the database. The syntax is as follows:
jdbc:inetora:server:port:dbname
For example:
jdbc:inetora:localhost:1521:payrolldb
In this example,localhost is the host name of the machine running the Oracle server, 1521 is the Oracle server’s port number, and payrolldb is the SID of the database. For more information about the syntax of the database URL, see the Oracle documentation.
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
port - Specify the port number of the database server.
streamstolob - If the size of BLOB or CLOB data types exceeds 4 KB and this driver is used for CMP, this property must be set to true.
xa-driver-does-not-support-non-tx-operations - Set to the value true. Optional: only needed if both non-XA and XA connections are retrieved from the same connection pool. Might degrade performance.
As an alternative to setting this property, you can create two connection pools, one for non-XA connections and one for XA connections.
The JAR file for the Inet Microsoft SQL Server driver is Merlia.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: mssql
DataSource Classname: com.inet.tds.TdsDataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address and the port of the database server.
port - Specify the port number of the database server.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
The JAR file for the Inet Sybase driver is Sybelux.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Sybase
DataSource Classname: com.inet.syb.SybDataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
portNumber - Specify the port number of the database server.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
databaseName - Set as appropriate. Do not specify the complete URL, only the database name.
The JAR file for the Oracle driver is ojdbc14.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Oracle
DataSource Classname:Specify one of the following:
oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource
Properties:
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
URL - Specify the complete database URL using the following syntax:
jdbc:oracle:thin:[user/password]@host[:port]/service
For example:
jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:customer_db
xa-driver-does-not-support-non-tx-operations - Set to the value true. Optional: only needed if both non-XA and XA connections are retrieved from the same connection pool. Might degrade performance.
As an alternative to setting this property, you can create two connection pools, one for non-XA connections and one for XA connections.
You must set the oracle-xa-recovery-workaround property in the Transaction Service for recovery of global transactions to work correctly. For details, see Transaction Scope.
When using this driver, it is not possible to insert more than 2000 bytes of data into a column. To circumvent this problem, use the OCI driver (JDBC type 2).
The JAR file for the OCI Oracle driver is ojdbc14.jar. Make sure that the shared library is available through LD_LIBRARY_PATH and that the ORACLE_HOME property is set. Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Oracle
DataSource Classname:Specify one of the following:
oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource oracle.jdbc.xa.client.OracleXADataSource
Properties:
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
URL - Specify the complete database URL using the following syntax:
jdbc:oracle:oci:[user/password]@host[:port]/service
For example:
jdbc:oracle:oci:@localhost:1521:customer_db
xa-driver-does-not-support-non-tx-operations - Set to the value true. Optional: only needed if both non-XA and XA connections are retrieved from the same connection pool. Might degrade performance.
As an alternative to setting this property, you can create two connection pools, one for non-XA connections and one for XA connections.
Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: Informix
DataSource Classname:Specify one of the following:
com.informix.jdbcx.IfxDataSource com.informix.jdbcx.IfxXADataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the Informix database server name.
portNumber - Specify the port number of the database server.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
databaseName - Set as appropriate. This is optional.
IfxIFXHost - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
Configure the connection pool using the following settings:
Name: Use this name when you configure the JDBC resource later.
Resource Type: Specify the appropriate value.
Database Vendor: mysql
DataSource Classname: one of the following:
com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource com.mysql.jdbc.jdbc2.optional.MysqlXaConnectionPoolDataSource
Properties:
serverName - Specify the host name or IP address of the database server.
port - Specify the port number of the database server.
user - Set as appropriate.
password - Set as appropriate.
databaseName - Set as appropriate.
URL - If you are using global transactions, you can set this property instead of serverName, port, and databaseName.
The MM MySQL Type 4 driver doesn’t provide a method to set the required relaxAutoCommit property, so you must set it indirectly by setting the URL property:
jdbc:mysql://host:port/database?relaxAutoCommit="true"
The JAR files for the CloudScape driver are db2j.jar, db2jtools.jar, db2jcview.jar, jh.jar, db2jcc.jar, and db2jnet.jar. Configure the connection pool using the following settings: