Tomcat context.xml resource password not allow special charcaters

Question

I have been trying for add data source in tomcat conf/context.xml as below.

<Resource name="jdbc/DS1"
                        auth="Container"
                        type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                        driverClassName="com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver"
                        url="jdbc:sqlserver://121.111.11.91;databaseName=DB_NAME"
                        username="testUanme"
                        password="TT&123$"
                        maxPoolSize="50"
                        removeAbandoned="true"
                        removeAbandonedTimeout="1000"
                        logAbandoned="true"
                        /> 

After set Data Source entry in config file i m restarting tomcat and it gives error like:

The reference to entity "TT" must end with the ';' delimiter.

Password not allowing special characters which i have used & and $.

Please suggest what should be there which allows me to enter special characters in password..

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you replace & in your password with & you should be fine.