Java JDBC efficiency: How long should a connection be maintained?

Question

I\'m still working on the same problem mention here. It seems to work fine especially after creating an AbstractModel class shown below:

public abstract class Ab         


        

Answer 1

Here is the Singleton Pattern which I initialize the myConenction field in all my Models to:

public class DatabaseConnection {
    private static final String uname = "*******";
    private static final String pword = "*******";
    private static final String url = "*******************************";

    Connection connection;
    // load jdbc driver
    public DatabaseConnection(){
        try{
            Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
            establishConnection();
        } catch (ClassNotFoundException ce) {
            System.out.println("Could not load jdbc Driver: ");
            ce.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    public Connection establishConnection() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        try{
            connection = DriverManager.getConnection(url, uname, pword);
        } catch (SQLException e){
            System.out.println("Could not connect to database: ");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return connection;
    }
}

public class SingletonConnection {

    private static DatabaseConnection con;

    public SingletonConnection(){}

    public static DatabaseConnection instance(){

        assert con == null;
            con = new DatabaseConnection();
        return con;
    }
}

Of course each and every connection to the database from the app goes through a Model.