<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <Context antiJARLocking="true" path="/DBConnectionPoolTest">
       <Resource name="jdbc/testdb"
                 auth="Container"
                 type="javax.sql.DataSource"
                 username="xxx" password="xxx"
                 driverclassname="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
                 url="jdbc:mysql://xxx/myApp"
                 maxactive="10"
                 maxidle="4" />
   </Context>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.1" xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd">
    <resource-ref>
        <description>DB Connection</description>
        <res-ref-name>jdbc/testdb</res-ref-name>
        <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
        <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
    </resource-ref>
</web-app>

Context initContext = new InitialContext();
Context envContext = (Context) initContext.lookup("java:/comp/env");
dataSource = (DataSource) envContext.lookup("jdbc/testdb");
...
connection = dataSource.getConnection();

java.sql.SQLException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'jdbc:mysql://xxx/myApp'
t org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createConnectionFactory(BasicDataSource.java:2065)
    at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(BasicDataSource.java:1939)
    at org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp2.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.java:1412)
    at DBPoolConnectionServlet.processRequest(DBPoolConnectionServlet.java:73)
...
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver