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JBoss AS 7 - Datasource configuration for postgresql
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Note that you may instead deploy the PostgreSQL JDBC driver as a module. That's the only way you'll be able to use a -ds.xml file to define a datasource, as far as I can tell anyway.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Create the directory <code>modules/org/postgresql/main</code> and place <code>postgresql-9.1-901-1.jdbc4.jar</code> within it. Now create a module.xml file in the same place, with the content:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><module xmlns=<span class="code-quote" style="background-color: inherit; color: #009100;">"urn:jboss:module:1.1"</span> name=<span class="code-quote" style="background-color: inherit; color: #009100;">"org.postgresql"</span>></p><p>   <!-- Load with jboss-cli command:</p><p>        /subsystem=datasources/jdbc-driver=postgresql-driver:add(driver-name=postgresql-driver, driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver, driver-module-name=org.postgresql)</p><p>   --></p><p>   <resources></p><p>     <resource-root path=<span class="code-quote" style="background-color: inherit; color: #009100;">"postgresql-9.1-901-1.jdbc4.jar"</span>/></p><p>   </resources></p><p>   <dependencies></p><p>     <module name=<span class="code-quote" style="background-color: inherit; color: #009100;">"javax.api"</span>/></p><p>     <module name=<span class="code-quote" style="background-color: inherit; color: #009100;">"javax.transaction.api"</span>/></p><p>   </dependencies></p><p> </module></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Activate it as "postgresql-driver" with </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>    jboss-cli.sh --connect command="/subsystem=datasources/jdbc-driver=postgresql-driver:add(driver-name=postgresql-driver, driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver, driver-module-name=org.postgresql"</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>You may now use this driver in -ds.xml files by specifying it as "postgresql-driver", eg:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?></p><p><datasources></p><p>  <datasource jndi-name="java:/datasources/some-ds" enabled="true" use-java-context="true"  </p><p>        pool-name="some-ds-pool"></p><p>    <connection-url>jdbc:postgresql:somedb</connection-url></p><p>    <driver>postgresql-driver</driver></p><p>    <security></p><p>      <user-name>user</user-name></p><p>      <password>pass</password></p><p>    </security></p><p>  </datasource></p><p></datasources></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Unlike explicitly naming the jdbc jar in a data-source create command, you can now update PgJDBC without changing all your datasources.</p></div>
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