Is DBCP (Apache Commons Database Connection Pooling) still relevant?

Question

The JDBC 3.0 spec talks about Connection (and Prepared Statement) pooling.

We have several standalone Java programs (i.e. we are not using an application server) tha

Answer 1

People still use DBCP, I think it even comes as a default with Hibernate.

Is DBCP not meeting your current needs?

I'm not a big believer in replacing infrastructure unless there's already a performance or functionality gap that it can't fill, even if there are newer or fancier alternatives around.