Oracle - connection Pooling with spring framework

Question

We are trying to implement Oracle connection pooling with the help of Spring Framework. We are using DBCP connection pooling method. However the integration between DBCP and spr

Answer 1

I use C3PO to establish the connection. It has also the advantage to do connection pooling for you. Just define a datasource bean of type e.g. com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource (or similar) through your spring config files. Before I run into troubles with connection pooling, I even used one of spring (DriverManagerDataSource) that is not advised for production use, because it is not actually doing the connection pooling.

Here is an example spring configuration.

Spring then injects the dataSource bean into Hibernate and all is well. You will also need to have the c3pO jar file on your classpath...