Re: Closing Database Connection

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:12:19 -0500
Message-ID:
<nospam-2F7AE5.12121915122009@news.aioe.org>
In article
<55efcbf6-3ab4-4085-adcd-6d901d739f07@v7g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,
 Jerim <wyount@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

package Program;

import java.sql.*;

public class Database {

    public void DBConnect() {
    Connection conn = null;

[...]

    }

    public void DBClose(String conn) {

[...]

    }

I can connect to the database just fine. My question, is that when
calling the DBClose() method, how do I pass along the connection I
created when I called DBConnect()? I have a sample program setup that
opens the database connection and then tries to close it.

package Program;

public class Processing {
    public void Login(String Username, String Password){

        Database dbconnection = new Database();

        dbconnection.DBConnect();
        //Database operations go here
        dbconnection.DBClose(conn);

    }
}


I see that conn has package-private access, so Database.conn would refer
to the Connection created by DBConnect():

<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/accesscontrol.html>

Alternatives might include these:

1) public Connection DBConnect() { ... return conn; }

2) public Connection getConnection() { ... return conn; }

Conventionally, package names have lower case names:

<http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html>

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trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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