Need help creating SQL Server datasource for JBoss EAP 6.1.0

Question

I am working on a web service application on JBoss EAP 6.1.0, which requires a datasource for SQL Server 2008 to be created. I have downloaded and extracted the sqljdbc jar file, but am not sure where it goes on the application server. I tried referencing the EAP 6.1 configuration guide and a couple of other websites, but that did not help. I would be very grateful if someone could guide me with the steps to register the datasource on the application server.

Answer 1

It goes into your modules folder. You have have something like the following:

<JBOSS_HOME>\modules\com\microsoft\sqlserver\main

Your sqljdbc would be inside the folder structure above. You would also need to create a module.xml file in the same folder similar to:

<module xmlns="urn:jboss:module:1.1" name="com.microsoft.sqlserver">
 <resources>
    <resource-root path="sqljdbc4.jar"/>
 </resources>
 <dependencies>
    <module name="javax.api"/>
    <module name="javax.transaction.api"/>
 </dependencies>
</module>

Then finally in your standalone.xml, the datasources section should have a drivers definition that references your module as such:

<drivers>
  <driver name="sqlserver" module="com.microsoft.sqlserver">
    <xa-datasource-class>com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerXADataSource</xa-datasource-class>
  </driver>
</drivers>

Hope that helps