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

MiniConnectionPoolManager is a one-java-file implementation, if you're looking for an embeddable solution and are not too concerned about performances (though I haven't tested it in that regard).

It is multi-licensed EPL, LGPL and MPL.

Its documentation also gives alternatives worth checking (on top of DBCP and C3P0):

• Proxool
• BoneCP
• Tomcat JDBC Connection Pool