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

Vibur DBCP is another library for that purpose. Several examples showing how to configure it for use with Hibernate, Spring+Hibernate, or programatically, can be found on its website: http://www.vibur.org/

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