Configuring the built-in c3p0 pooling in Hibernate using Spring

Question

I learned that to configure c3p0 pooling in hibernate, we can have write the configuration in hibernate.cfg.xml such this:

Answer 1

With the spring configuration you are using dbcp instead of cp30. Spring is creating an instance of the data source / connection pool. To configure simillar parameters for dbcp set them has properties directly

etc. You can find out about the properties available by looking at the javaodoc for BasicDataSource or from the configuration page http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/configuration.html.