How to establish a connection pool in JDBC?

Question

Can anybody provide examples or links on how to establish a JDBC connection pool?

From searching google I see many different ways of doing this and it is rather conf

Answer 1

In the app server we use where I work (Oracle Application Server 10g, as I recall), pooling is handled by the app server. We retrieve a javax.sql.DataSource using a JNDI lookup with a javax.sql.InitialContext.

it's done something like this

try {     
   context = new InitialContext();
   jdbcURL = (DataSource) context.lookup("jdbc/CachedDS");
   System.out.println("Obtained Cached Data Source ");
}
catch(NamingException e)   
{  
    System.err.println("Error looking up Data Source from Factory: "+e.getMessage());
}

(We didn't write this code, it's copied from this documentation.)