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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse
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Java EE 8 Development with Eclipse

by Ram Kulkarni
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
596 pages
12h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring a datasource

In Spring, you can configure a JDBC datasource either in Java code or in the XML configuration (context) file. Before we see how to configure a datasource, we need to add some dependencies in Maven. In this chapter, we will use Apache's Commons DBCP component for connection pooling (recall that in Chapter 4, Creating JEE Database Applications, we selected the Hikari connection pool). Visit https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-dbcp/ for details on Apache DBCP. In addition to adding a dependency for Apache DBCP, we need to add dependencies for Spring JDBC and the MySQL JDBC driver. Add the following dependencies to the pom.xml of the project:

<!-- Spring JDBC --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> ...
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