javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name [jdbc/spitterDS] is not bound in this Context. Unable to find [jdbc]

Question

I am trying to access a JNDI datasource in tomcat using Spring's jee jndi-lookup tag.

The exception is indicating that I haven't registered my datasource correctly but I'm unable to figure out why not.

Here is my code:-

service-context.xml:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop" xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:jee="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee 
                    http://www.springframework.org/schema/jee/spring-jee.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="spitter" />
    <mvc:annotation-driven />

    <jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="/jdbc/spitterDS" resource-ref="true" />

</beans>

webapp/META-INF/context.xml:-

<Context path="/spitter" reloadable="true" cachingAllowed="false" antiResourceLocking="true">

<!-- Default set of monitored resources -->
<WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>

<Resource name="jdbc/spitterDS" auth="Container" type="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
    maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" username="root" password="password"
    driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/spitter" />
</Context>

web.xml:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

<display-name>Spitter</display-name>

<resource-ref>
    <description>Spitter DS</description>
    <res-ref-name>jdbc/spitterDS</res-ref-name>
    <res-type>org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource</res-type>
    <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>

<context-param>
    <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
    <param-value>
        classpath:service-context.xml
    </param-value>
</context-param>

<listener>
    <listener-class>
        org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
    </listener-class>
</listener>

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>
        org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet
    </servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>dispatcher</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

and finally,

MainController.java:-

package spitter.mvc;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import javax.annotation.Resource;
import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMethod;


@Controller
@RequestMapping("/")
public class MainController {
    @Resource(name="dataSource")
    private DataSource dataSource;

    @RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public String showHome(Model model) throws SQLException{
        Connection con = dataSource.getConnection();

        return "spitter";
    }
}

I am using Tomcat 7 in Eclipse kepler for JEE developers. The exception when I start the tomcat server in eclipse:-

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mainController': Injection of resource dependencies failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'dataSource': Invocation of init method failed; nested exception is javax.naming.NameNotFoundException: Name [jdbc/spitterDS] is not bound in this Context. Unable to find [jdbc].

I assume I have made a typo somewhere but cannot find it. Please help!

Answer 1

In my case I had to increase the setting in my.cnf max_connections = 120 I get the impression that any misconfiguration of mysql will give this error message.

Answer 2

I faced off this problem too, in my case I missed a WARN from tomcat log, I didn't include the jar for

org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory 

commons-dbcp-x.x.jar
commons-pool-x.x.x.jar
commons-lang-x.x.x.jar

Fixed this, all runs fine.

Answer 3

I got same exact error. But for me following was missing from Resource

driverClassName="oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver"

After adding that, everything worked perfectly.

Answer 4

"/jdbc/spitterDS" is not equal to "jdbc/spitterDS".

In service-context.xml file,
Change

<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="/jdbc/spitterDS" resource-ref="true" />

To

<jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="jdbc/spitterDS" resource-ref="true" />

---

Edit:

Error creating bean with name 'dataSource':

As per documentation:

... in the @Resource(name="jdbc/Foo") DataSource ds; annotation, the global JNDI name is jdbc/Foo.
...
The @Resource annotation in the application code looks like this:
@Resource(name="jdbc/helloDbDs") javax.sql.DataSource ds;

Change:

@Resource(name="dataSource")
private DataSource dataSource;

To:

@Resource(name="jdbc/spitterDS")
private DataSource dataSource;

Refer To: Using the Java Naming and Directory Interface.