Re: Validating JDBC Connection to iSeries

Hi,

i guess the best way is to trap the error in try catch
block,

ashish
--- TitanRebel <TitanRebel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a "standard" way to validate that a JDBC
> connection to the 
> iSeries is
> still valid?  I've implemented my own connection
> pooling and I thought 
> that I
> had been validating the connections by doing 
> "conn.getMetaData()". 
>  Evidently,
> this method does not "make a trip" to the iSeries. 
> Is there anything other
> than "querying a file that will always be there". 
> It just doesn't seem 
> to be
> an elegant solution, but if this is the only way
> then so be it.
> 
> I'm testing this by:
> 1. Creating and testing some valid connections to
> the database in the pool
> (running Tomcat on my PC).
> 2. Disable my network connection via Win2k.
> 3. Try it again, getting an error of course.
> 4. Re-enable my network connection.
> 5. Try it again.  This is where my connection pool
> should determine that the
> existing connections in the pool are invalid, and
> re-establish a new
> connection returning the new one.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken K.
> 
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