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Chapter 5. Connection management

Connection pooling is an option when using host Integration Objects in IBM

WebSphere Host Publisher Version 3.5. By default, Host Publisher uses

nonpooled connections (dedicated connections). When a user requests

information from a host access Integration Object on a Web page, Host Publisher

connects to the host, logs on, extracts the information, and logs off. This

procedure involves a great deal of overhead. To reduce the time it takes to return

information, Host Publisher allows you to keep connections in place once the

application that requested a connection is no longer communicating. Subsequent

users of the same or other applications requesting a connection from the same

pool can then use it without having to go through the connect phase of the host

Integration Object, therefore lowering the overhead and improving the overall

response time.

In this chapter, we present an overview of connection pooling and describe the

steps necessary to configure connection pools.

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