[Bamboo Knowledge Base]
Within the Context tags of your context descriptor (bamboo.xml), directly after the opening <Context...> line, insert the DataSource Resource tag:
<Context .... >
<Resource name="jdbc/bamboo" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource"
username="yourusername"
password="yourpassword"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/bamboo?autoReconnect=true"
maxActive="15"
maxIdle="7"
validationQuery="Select 1" />
</Context>