RE: JDBC Connection pooling

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David, thanks for sharing your code... But I have a question...  What are
the benifits of connection pooling, and when would I use them?

thanks, tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gibbs [SMTP:dgibbs@mks.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:22 AM
> To:   'JAVA400 List'
> Subject:      Re: JDBC Connection pooling
>
> Mike Silvers said:
> > Does anyone have a working example of using JDBC connection pooling?  I
> > have done several searches on the web and found article after article,
> > but I would like to see a real working example of JDBC connection
> > pooling..
>
> Yes, as a mater of fact, I just figured this out a few weeks ago.
>
> I think that the reason you couldn't find much is, connection pooling is
> not
> part of Java 2 1.3 (I think).  It might be in 1.4, but I'm not sure.  JDBC
> connection pooling is database and/or environment specific.
>
> Here's what I did to create a JDBC connection pool using JT400...
>
> // build your connection pool ...
>
> AS400JDBCConnectionPoolDataSource dataSource =
>       new AS400JDBCConnectionPoolDataSource(hostId, userid, password);
> dataSource.setLibraries(fileLibrary);
> dataSource.setTransactionIsolation("none");
> AS400JDBCConnectionPool pool = new AS400JDBCConnectionPool(dataSource);
> pool.setMaxConnections(poolSize);
>
> // to get a connection
> Connection con = pool.getConnection();
>
> // to give the connection back
> con.close();
>
> david
>
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