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

Have been using DBCP for a couple of years now in production. It is stable, survives DB server reboot. Just configure it properly. It only requires a handful of parameters to be specified so don't be lazy. Here is a snippet from our system production code which lists parameters that we explicitly set to make it work:

DriverAdapterCPDS driverAdapterCPDS = new DriverAdapterCPDS();
driverAdapterCPDS.setUrl(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("url"));
driverAdapterCPDS.setUser(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("username"));
driverAdapterCPDS.setPassword(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("password"));
driverAdapterCPDS.setDriver(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("driverClass"));

driverAdapterCPDS.setMaxActive(Integer.valueOf(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("maxActive")));
driverAdapterCPDS.setMaxIdle(Integer.valueOf(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("maxIdle")));
driverAdapterCPDS.setPoolPreparedStatements(Boolean.valueOf(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("poolPreparedStatements")));

SharedPoolDataSource poolDataSource = new SharedPoolDataSource();
poolDataSource.setConnectionPoolDataSource(driverAdapterCPDS);
poolDataSource.setMaxWait(Integer.valueOf(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("maxWait")));
poolDataSource.setDefaultTransactionIsolation(Integer.valueOf(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("defaultTransactionIsolation")));
poolDataSource.setDefaultReadOnly(Boolean.valueOf(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("defaultReadOnly")));
poolDataSource.setTestOnBorrow(Boolean.valueOf(dataSourceProperties.getProperty("testOnBorrow")));
poolDataSource.setValidationQuery("SELECT 0");