LKBEN11154: Howto install a jdbc postgres driver for glassfish

Symptom

You need to make a connection via jdbc on a glassfish application server, your database is postgresql

Cause

none

Solution

First thing to do is download your jdbc driver. For postgres you can find this on the postgres website.

e.g.

postgresql-8.3-604.jdbc4.jar

or

postgresql-8.4-701.jdbc4.jar

Now you need to copy it in the lib directory of your domain. If you are working with the default domain, then this must be domain1.

e.g. on windows

C:\Programme\glassfish-v2.1\domains\domain1\lib>

or

C:\Programme\glassfish_v3\glassfish\domains\domain1\lib

e.g. on linux

~/glassfish-v2.1/domains/domain1/lib

After copying the driver you can setup and configure the data source. For more information look at the article "Howto configure a connection pool for a postgres database in glassfish".

About the Author

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

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