How to force a Java thread to close a thread-local database connection

Question

When Using a thread-local database connection, closure of the connection is required when the thread exists.

This I can only do if I can override the run() method of the

Answer 1

Override the get() method in ThreaedLocal so that it sets a List property on the subclass. This property can easily be queried to determine if the get() method had been called for a particular thread. You could then access the ThreadLocal to clean it up in that case.

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