Hello Daniel, You're right, commons-dbcp and tomcat-dbcp seem to be same, I missed tomcat-jdbc module which seems to provide extensions and judging by the pom (see [1]) it depends only on tomcat-juli. I found the answers at [2] and [3].
Thanks! Regards, Stevo. [1] http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/tomcat/tomcat-jdbc/7.0.22/tomcat-jdbc-7.0.22.pom [2] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/jdbc-pool.html [3] http://vigilbose.blogspot.com/2009/03/apache-commons-dbcp-and-tomcat-jdbc.html On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@vmware.com> wrote: > > >> 1) Can tomcat-dbcp be used outside of tomcat e.g. in non-web apps? > > Yes, but tomcat-dbcp is exactly the same as commons-dbcp. You would > probably just want to use commons-dbcp. > >> 2) If yes, are all features available as when used within tomcat? > > It has the same feature set as commons-dbcp. > > https://commons.apache.org/dbcp/ > >> 3) Most importantly are custom interceptors supported when tomcat-dbcp >> is used outside tomcat? >> 4) Can custom interceptor influence/extend connection validation? >> Would like not only to configure validation query but also to add >> extra logic which would process result of the query. >> 5) Are there any examples, documentation, blog posts showing >> implementations of custom interceptors? > > I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to with regard to the > interceptors. Which version of Tomcat are you using? How are you > configuring this within Tomcat? > > Dan > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org