JNDI lookup works fine using lookUp but not when used in persistence.xml of JPA

Question

I am using tomcat connection pool, jpa, hibernate. The datasource i created in context.xml of tomcat works fine if I try to get it using :

source = (DataSource)          


        

Answer 1

Maybe try the persistence.xml JNDI defined name including both the namespace ("java:comp/env") as well as the JNDI path ("jdbc/kids") in a single-string (i.e put them together).