Guice, JDBC and managing database connections

Question

I\'m looking to create a sample project while learning Guice which uses JDBC to read/write to a SQL database. However, after years of using Spring and letting it abstract a

Answer 1

I would use something like c3po to create datasources directly. If you use ComboPooledDataSource you only need instance (pooling is done under the covers), which you can bind directly or through a provider.

Then I'd create an interceptor on top of that, one that e.g. picks up @Transactional, manages a connection and commit/ rollback. You could make Connection injectable as well, but you need to make sure you close the connections somewhere to allow them to be checked into the pool again.