This is another good option.
On 11-Jan-07, at 10:21 AM, Ido M. Tamir wrote:
> On Thursday 11 January 2007 15:28, James Neff wrote:
>> Greetings,
>
>> Where can I find good instructions or a tutorial on how to do
>> connection
>> pooling for JDBC to a Postgres database on my client?
>
> http://www.mchange.com/projects/c3p0/index.html
>
> c3p0 was designed to be butt-simple to use. Just put the jar file
> [lib/c3p0-0.9.0.jar] in your application's effective CLASSPATH, and
> make a
> DataSource like this:
>
> import com.mchange.v2.c3p0.*;
>
> ...
>
> ComboPooledDataSource cpds = new ComboPooledDataSource();
> cpds.setDriverClass( "org.postgresql.Driver" ); //loads the jdbc
> driver
> cpds.setJdbcUrl( "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/testdb" );
> cpds.setUser("dbuser");
> cpds.setPassword("dbpassword");
>
> [Optional] If you want to turn on PreparedStatement pooling, you
> must also set
> maxStatements and/or maxStatementsPerConnection(both default to 0):
>
> cpds.setMaxStatements( 180 );
>
> Do whatever you want with your DataSource, which will be backed by a
> Connection pool set up with default parameters. You can bind the
> DataSource
> to a JNDI name service, or use it directly, as you prefer.
> When you are done, you can clean up the DataSource you've created
> like this:
>
> DataSources.destroy( cpds );
>
> That's it! The rest is detail.
>
> hth
> ido
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