SpringBoot JNDI datasource throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSourceFactory

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I have a Spring Batch project with Spring Boot and trying to use DB connection pools. I am using embedded tomcat container with version 8.5.x.

Everything works fine if I use application.properties to specify data source and pool settings.

But when I try to use JNDI, I get exception -

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSourceFactory

I don't see any jar names tomcat-dbcp-** in Maven jars so I am not sure if I need to include any new dependency or need to set default data source factory and how to go about it.

Below is my JNDI beans set up, Question. I have blanked out certain values.

@Bean
    public TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory embeddedServletContainerFactory(){
        return new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory() {

            @Override
            protected TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer getTomcatEmbeddedServletContainer(
                    Tomcat tomcat) {
                tomcat.enableNaming();
                return super.getTomcatEmbeddedServletContainer(tomcat);
            }

            @Override
            protected void postProcessContext(Context context) {
                ContextResource resource = new ContextResource();
                resource.setName("jdbc/myDataSource");
                resource.setType(DataSource.class.getName());
                resource.setProperty("driverClassName", "com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver");
                resource.setProperty("url", "url");
                resource.setProperty("username", "user");
                resource.setProperty("password", "*****");
                context.getNamingResources().addResource(resource);
            }
        };
    }

    @Lazy
    @Bean(destroyMethod="")
    public DataSource jndiDataSource() throws IllegalArgumentException, NamingException {
        JndiObjectFactoryBean bean = new JndiObjectFactoryBean();
        bean.setJndiName("java:comp/env/jdbc/myDataSource");
        bean.setProxyInterface(DataSource.class);
        bean.setLookupOnStartup(false);
        bean.afterPropertiesSet();
        return (DataSource)bean.getObject();
    }

My pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <packaging>war</packaging>

    <groupId>***</groupId>
    <artifactId>***</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
    </parent>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-batch</artifactId>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-logging</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-log4j</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.1.RELEASE</version>
        </dependency>   

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>db2</groupId>
            <artifactId>db2jcc</artifactId>
            <version>4.0</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>db2</groupId>
            <artifactId>db2jcc_license_cu</artifactId>
            <version>4.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>

        <plugins>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4.0.RELEASE</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>repackage</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1</version>
                <configuration>
                <source>1.7</source>
                <target>1.7</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Answer 1

I solved the problem by setting factory attribute in my Resource Definition. resource.setProperty("factory", "org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory");

@Bean
public TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory embeddedServletContainerFactory(){
    return new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory() {

        @Override
        protected TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer getTomcatEmbeddedServletContainer(
                Tomcat tomcat) {
            tomcat.enableNaming();
            return super.getTomcatEmbeddedServletContainer(tomcat);
        }

        @Override
        protected void postProcessContext(Context context) {
            ContextResource resource = new ContextResource();
            resource.setName("jdbc/myDataSource");
            resource.setType(DataSource.class.getName());
            resource.setProperty("factory", "org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory");
            resource.setProperty("driverClassName", "com.ibm.db2.jcc.DB2Driver");
            resource.setProperty("url", "url");
            resource.setProperty("username", "user");
            resource.setProperty("password", "*****");
            context.getNamingResources().addResource(resource);
        }
    };
}

As per tomcat 8 documentation, it is supposed to automatically infer db pool factory type by looking at DataSource type and somehow it defaults to DBCP factory and that class is not there in my class path.

I guess so issue can be solved by making tomcat-dbcp-** jars available but I am not sure how to do that with spring boot or even if that is possible with spring boot.

What I find weird is Spring Boot not including tomcat-dbcp dependencies as part of starter POM but using DBCP DataSource factory as default factory.