Spring JDBC connection pool best practices

Question

I have a basic Spring JDBC application with a pretty basic configuration:

Answer 1

BoneCP has been claiming but then a new tool is introduced named HiKariCP it has overcomed many drawbacks which were present in pass tools you can configure it by below change in application-context.xml

where in database.properties you should provide details of database like below

 url=jdbc:oracle:thin:@IP:port:SID/Databasename
 user=usernmae
 password=password

For proper demo you can use this link