Re: Connection Pooling

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.databases
Date:
Mon, 26 May 2008 22:46:12 -0400
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kuassi.mensah@gmail.com wrote:

On May 25, 1:49 pm, Arne VajhHj <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Chase Preuninger wrote:

What is the best way to create/get a database pool for a serious web
application?

Use the database connection pool capability in the app server.

Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, WebLogic etc. all supports it.


The problem with middle-tier connection pools is that they cannot span
JVMs or midlet0er instances.


That is not a problem. It is an advantage. Because interacting with pool
is then a local call.

                            Oracle's Database Resident Connecton Pool
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/pdf/php-scalability-ha-twp.pdf
solves this problem; unfortunately it is not (yet) exposed to Java
only PHP and Ruby/Rails (primarily because these are process based not
thread based).


That solution is used not because it is a better solution, but
because the traditional Java/.NET/C++ solution does not work with PHP.

You can use DRCP from Java.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/oracle-database-11g-top-features/11g-caching-pooling.html

describes how to specify the JDBC connection URL.

I think the interest from Java will be low. A local pool is faster. The
only benefit of a central pool is if the workload tend to be uneven
distributed among app servers - in that case a central pool will
use less resources.

Arne

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