Connection pooling options with JDBC: DBCP vs C3P0

Question

What is the best connection pooling library available for Java/JDBC?

I\'m considering the 2 main candidates (free / open-source):

• Apache DBCP - http:/

Answer 1

For the auto-reconnect issue with DBCP, has any tried using the following 2 configuration parameters?

validationQuery="Some Query"

testOnBorrow=true