How to establish a connection pool in JDBC?

Question

Can anybody provide examples or links on how to establish a JDBC connection pool?

From searching google I see many different ways of doing this and it is rather conf

Answer 1

Don't reinvent the wheel.

Try one of the readily available 3rd party components:

• Apache DBCP - This one is used internally by Tomcat, and by yours truly.
• c3p0

Apache DBCP comes with different example on how to setup a pooling javax.sql.DataSource. Here is one sample that can help you get started.