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

Pool

• Pooling Mechanism is the way of creating the Objects in advance. When a class is loaded.
• It improves the application performance [By re using same object's to perform any action on Object-Data] & memory [allocating and de-allocating many objects creates a significant memory management overhead].
• Object clean-up is not required as we are using same Object, reducing the Garbage collection load.

« Pooling [ Object pool, String Constant Pool, Thread Pool, Connection pool]

String Constant pool

• String literal pool maintains only one copy of each distinct string value. which must be immutable.
• When the intern method is invoked, it check object availability with same content in pool using equals method. « If String-copy is available in the Pool then returns the reference. « Otherwise, String object is added to the pool and returns the reference.

Example: String to verify Unique Object from pool.

public class StringPoolTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) { // Integer.valueOf(), String.equals()
        String eol = System.getProperty("line.separator"); //java7 System.lineSeparator();

        String s1 = "Yash".intern();
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s1, s1.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s1));
        String s2 = "Yas"+"h".intern();
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s2, s2.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s2));
        String s3 = "Yas".intern()+"h".intern();
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s3, s3.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s3));
        String s4 = "Yas"+"h";
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s4, s4.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s4));
    }
}

Connection pool using Type-4 Driver using 3rd party libraries[ DBCP2, c3p0, Tomcat JDBC]

Type 4 - The Thin driver converts JDBC calls directly into the vendor-specific database protocol Ex[Oracle - Thick, MySQL - Quora]. wiki

In Connection pool mechanism, when the class is loaded it get's the physical JDBC connection objects and provides a wrapped physical connection object to user. PoolableConnection is a wrapper around the actual connection.

• getConnection() pick one of the free wrapped-connection form the connection objectpool and returns it.
• close() instead of closing it returns the wrapped-connection back to pool.

Example: Using ~ DBCP2 Connection Pool with Java 7[try-with-resources]

public class ConnectionPool {
    static final BasicDataSource ds_dbcp2 = new BasicDataSource();
    static final ComboPooledDataSource ds_c3p0 = new ComboPooledDataSource();
    static final DataSource ds_JDBC = new DataSource();

    static Properties prop = new Properties();
    static {
        try {
            prop.load(ConnectionPool.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("connectionpool.properties"));

            ds_dbcp2.setDriverClassName( prop.getProperty("DriverClass") );
            ds_dbcp2.setUrl( prop.getProperty("URL") );
            ds_dbcp2.setUsername( prop.getProperty("UserName") );
            ds_dbcp2.setPassword( prop.getProperty("Password") );
            ds_dbcp2.setInitialSize( 5 );

            ds_c3p0.setDriverClass( prop.getProperty("DriverClass") );
            ds_c3p0.setJdbcUrl( prop.getProperty("URL") );
            ds_c3p0.setUser( prop.getProperty("UserName") );
            ds_c3p0.setPassword( prop.getProperty("Password") );
            ds_c3p0.setMinPoolSize(5);
            ds_c3p0.setAcquireIncrement(5);
            ds_c3p0.setMaxPoolSize(20);

            PoolProperties pool = new PoolProperties();
            pool.setUrl( prop.getProperty("URL") );
            pool.setDriverClassName( prop.getProperty("DriverClass") );
            pool.setUsername( prop.getProperty("UserName") );
            pool.setPassword( prop.getProperty("Password") );
            pool.setValidationQuery("SELECT 1");// SELECT 1(mysql) select 1 from dual(oracle)

            pool.setInitialSize(5);
            pool.setMaxActive(3);
            ds_JDBC.setPoolProperties( pool );
        } catch (IOException e) {   e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (PropertyVetoException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
    }

    public static Connection getDBCP2Connection() throws SQLException {
        return ds_dbcp2.getConnection();
    }

    public static Connection getc3p0Connection() throws SQLException {
        return ds_c3p0.getConnection();
    }

    public static Connection getJDBCConnection() throws SQLException {
        return ds_JDBC.getConnection();
    }
}
public static boolean exists(String UserName, String Password ) throws SQLException {
    boolean exist = false;
    String SQL_EXIST = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username=? AND password=?";
    try ( Connection connection = ConnectionPool.getDBCP2Connection();
          PreparedStatement pstmt = connection.prepareStatement(SQL_EXIST); ) {
        pstmt.setString(1, UserName );
        pstmt.setString(2, Password );

        try (ResultSet resultSet = pstmt.executeQuery()) {
            exist = resultSet.next(); // Note that you should not return a ResultSet here.
        }
    }
    System.out.println("User : "+exist);
    return exist;
}

jdbc::::: jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:myDBName jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDBName

connectionpool.properties

URL         : jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDBName
DriverClass : com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
UserName    : root
Password    :

Web Application: To avoid connection problem when all the connection's are closed[MySQL "wait_timeout" default 8 hours] in-order to reopen the connection with underlying DB.

You can do this to Test Every Connection by setting testOnBorrow = true and validationQuery= "SELECT 1" and donot use autoReconnect for MySQL server as it is deprecated. issue

===== ===== context.xml ===== =====



    


===== ===== web.xml ===== =====

    DB Connection
    jdbc/MyAppDB
    javax.sql.DataSource
    Container

===== ===== DBOperations ===== =====
servlet «   init() {}
Normal call used by sevlet  « static {}

static DataSource ds;
static {
    try {
        Context ctx=new InitialContext();
        Context envContext = (Context)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env");
        ds  =   (DataSource) envContext.lookup("jdbc/MyAppDB");
    } catch (NamingException e) {   e.printStackTrace();    }
}

See these also:

• am-i-using-jdbc-connection-pooling
• configuring-jdbc-pool-high-concurrency