Re: JDBC Connection Pooling and Fail-over
Alex Collins wrote:
The drivers [presumably he means JDBC drivers] I have can have issues, such as statements failing due to
schema changes and connections being lost due to timeout. I was
wondering if there's any driver that are basic and free that might
wrap the existing connection to provide these features?
What drivers? What database?
Timeouts come from the database, typically - you have to configure the
DBMS to have a different timeout. The most a Java class can do is set
a DB-specific property to affect this, unless it breaks encapsulation
to dig into specific non-standard methods for a particular driver, but
drivers are not usually set up to support that..
John B. Matthews wrote:
Can you elaborate on this? The drivers I've used implement
ConnectionPoolDataSource*, which inherits methods to manage the
timeout.
The login timeout. That says nothing about connection timeout.
Moreover, I don't understand what a driver can do to accommodate
schema changes, other than report the failure of an errant command.
How in the world can one expect a statement to succeed if the schema
changes? Of course there's an error there! Duhh.
*<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/sql/ConnectionPoolDataSou...>
Nothing here addresses the OP's questions.
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