“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”

—Confucius

I recently tried to listen to the Analects of Confucius, but I could not get far with it. This brand of oriental wisdom is interesting on first read, but then you think: how the hell does this affect my life? How often do you look for a black cat in a dark room when there is no cat there? Even metaphorically, this is not something that I do often enough to warrant a maxim.

Perhaps it should be re-written:

The hardest thing of all is to Google a complex search phrase, especially if a word is misspelled.

—Keith

This makes more sense, but still not all not anywhere near the hardest thing in life.

My immediate need is for an example using MyEclipse to access a JNDI database connection. MyEclipse is a Java tool and it is woefully ignorant of JNDI connections on the embedded Tomcat server. It looks like the only way to do this is to hand craft the XML file. This crap is supposed to make programming easier, not harder. No search phrase that I tried seems to come up with an answer. Talk about your black cats in a dark room!