Spring 5.0 Cookbook

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Using the MySQL server configured in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Spring, let us now scrutinize some popular connection pool libraries that can be used to perform JDBC transactions:

1. The first few steps will be devoted to the listing of needed Maven libraries for Spring 5.0, especially Spring JDBC dependency and MySQL 5.7 connector. With regard to its connection, add this current MySQL-Java connector to the Maven dependencies:

<dependency> 
    <groupId>mysql</groupId> 
    <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId> 
    <version>5.1.40</version> 
</dependency>

2. Next, we will be doing some comparative analysis on which database JDBC resource pooling best fits with our applications. Consider the following third-party libraries to be ...