Grouper Developers Forum

["Cantor, Scott" <>]

On 9/22/11 3:55 PM, "Chris Hyzer" 
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 wrote:

>The history is, at the previous hibernate upgrade (2008?  2009?),
>hibernate stopped shipping with dbcp, and it still doesn't.  So we
>switched it to c3p0.  I agree that both work fine, I think c3p0 has more
>useful options than dbcp, but I don't remember the specifics.

I was actually saying that in my experience c3p0 doesn't work at all. (The
IdP ships with it, I had to switch to container managed connections to get
away from it.) If it works for others, that's nice.

>  There is a pooling interface to implement where any pool can be used.
>Its not just a datasource since I think it is useful to be able to remove
>connections from the pool if there is an error without having to test it
>on every checkout or checking, but maybe that is just me :)

I actually would argue the point of the pool is to do that for you.

-- Scott