jdbc-pool

I recently upgraded my NetBeans IDE from v7.3 to v8 and all of a sudden my application throws an exception at server startup while connecting to DB. The only difference between these two versions of IDE are that the later one is using Tomcat 8. Exception Log: javax.naming.NamingException: Could not load resource factory class [Root exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.tomcat.dbcp.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory] at org.apache.naming.factory.ResourceFactory.getObjectInstance(ResourceFactory.java:82) at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getObjectInstance(NamingManager.java:321) at

Our site get roughly 1M pv/day, and we use Tomcat for sure. I couldn't find much information about jdbc-pool , not sure if it's stable enough for production. Anyone got experience on it? and any configuration/tuning stuff for reference? As someone mentioned, BoneCP might be another choice. But seems it's discontinued (so sad...). Would it be a better choice? btw, HikariCP is too young, I would keep an eye on it as it's the latest/fastest CP so far I found. Thanks for any advice. I'm one of the authors of HikariCP. That said, the "new" Tomcat pool is among the best we've tested. It has a lot of

Possible Duplicate: Prepared statement pooling in dbcp I am building a web application that uses Tomcat's Database connection pooling mechanism for its internal use. I am trying to pool the prepared statements as well so that the application is more efficient in retrieving data. From what I understand, connections are returned to the pool when the connection, resultset and statements are closed. If appropriate flags are set, abandoned connections are also closed and returned to the pool. Closing a connection means releasing all database cursors and cached statement including prepared