[Opensource] Protect DB Password? (was Websphere...)

[Michael Rimov]

At 07:57 PM 1/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Gang:
>
>I have a project taking shape that will deploy to Websphere.  They wanted 
>us to use their DB connection pool (using JNDI) but Expresso is not 
>capable of doing that.  I asked for permission to run our own connection 
>pool and got it, but they want us to pick up the DB ID/password (or key 
>maybe) from a specified file (to protect the password).  Has anyone done 
>this before?

Haven't done that, but a developer HAS checked in some JNDI code and uses 
it with Websphere that way. [You'll need Expresso 5.0.1+]

Check the DTD, but the key is something along the lines of <jndi/> and that 
will give you what you need.

HTH!
                                                 -Mike