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

What we did was

@Override
public void run() {
  try {
    // ...
  } finally {
    resource.close();
  }
}

Basically just always (possibly open and then) close it for all paths through the thread. In case it helps anybody out there :)