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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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Using a JDBC database connection pool

As mentioned before, a JDBC database connection is an expensive operation and connection objects should be reused. Connection pools are used for this purpose. Most web containers provide their own implementation of a connection pool along with ways to configure it using JNDI. Tomcat also lets you configure a connection pool using JNDI. The advantage of configuring a connection pool using JNDI is that the database configuration parameters, such as hostname and port, remain outside the source code and can be easily modified. See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/jdbc-pool.html.

However, a Tomcat connection pool can also be used without JNDI, as described in the preceding link. In this example, we ...

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