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This article provides two alternatives to deploy the connection pool: using the Geronimo Administration Console and using the command line option.

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Adding DB2 drivers to the repository

To add the DB2 drivers and license to the Geronimo repository you are required to place the files in a particular directory structure. You will normally have two or three files to add to the repository. These files are:

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With the drivers and license files installed, you can now create a new database connection pool.

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Creating a database connection pool using the wizard from the Geronimo Administration Console

From the Geronimo Administration Console select Database Pools and create a new pool by clicking Using the Geronimo database pool wizard.

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Click Deploy. You will have DB2_ds listed in the Database Pools portlet.

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Deploying a database connection pool using the command line

As an alternative to the wizard, you can create a deployment plan manually and deploy it using the command line based deployer tool. To use this option create a db2-plan.xml file and copy the content of the following example.

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Right after the moduleId comes the definition of the dependencies. In this particular case you can find three <dep:dependency> blocks pertaining to the DB2 JDBC driver and the license jar. The last "big" block in this plan is the <resourceadapter> where the connection paramenters such as driver, user and password, connection URL, etc. are defined.

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Deploying the datasource

To the deploy the DB2 datasource you just created, run the following command from the <geronimo_home>\bin directory.

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