Dear All, I am doing connection pooling with tomcat 6. And i am doing this very first time before today i had no idea about connection pooling. I want to ensure that it is the correct way or not. Please do me correct if i am doing wrong anywhere. I am explaining you all steps done by me-
*1. Have created a context.xml* <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context> <Resource name="jdbc/MaxDB" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" username="root" password="root" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:MySQL://localhost:3306/MaxDB?zeroDateTimeBehavior=convertToNull"/> </Context> *2. Mapping in web.xml* <resource-ref> <description>MySql DataSource</description> <res-ref-name>jdbc/MaxDB</res-ref-name> <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type> <res-auth>Container</res-auth> </resource-ref> *3. Then on my servlet i am getting the object of connection like this-* private static InitialContext ic; protected static DataSource datasource; private static Context ctx; protected static Connection getConnection() throws DatabaseException { Connection conn = null; try { ctx = new InitialContext(); datasource = (DataSource) ctx.lookup("java:/comp/env/jdbc/MaxDB"); conn = datasource.getConnection(); } catch (Exception ex) { } return conn; } Is that it or we need to do anything else for connection pooling. As i google then i found there is an API Commons DBCP so tomcat use it internally or we have to do something with this. Using this i am able to get the connection object.But at the second request how i will validate that its taking the connection object from pool and not creating the new con object. Even i am not sire that here i am using connection pooling or getting object of connection simply using datasource. Please assist me! Thanking You! *Best Regards, * *Saurabh Sarasvat*