So let me get this straight. You are reluctant to accept a configuration which
gives you improved throughput ? :P
Anyway, this is not an unusual approach, from what I understand this simply
makes full use of the resources available on that machine. Not uncommon in real
world to see app servers
Well where to start?
1. Pretty much from version 4 of tomcat you've would have been able to connect
to oracle using JDBC using the oracle supplied driver.
2. Well typically you connect to any database in java using JDBC, difference in
app servers is that they provide you a means to configure th
