I have read a couple of resources to get the answer for this question. But I am not getting convincing answer.
Question is : 1)What is the use of resource-ref in web.xml ? I am trying to link this specifically in tomcat container.
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It will be one kind of indirection. Use application specific name in "web.xml" and container specific JNDI name exists in container specific file.
However in case of tomcat , how are we mapping resource name in web.xml to resource defined in context.xml ? The reference documentation for tomcat also is not helping why to define resource-ref ? Same name in resource-ref as in context.xml. We are not achieving anything here
Tomcat reference documentation is also not helping much
In fact I have created sample Spring application in which I defined datasource in context.xml and referenced in Spring context file. I have not defined anything in web.xml.
