Spring is losing connection to the DB and does not recover or reconnect

Question

I have a spring-boot application on the same host as the Maria DB and both are running fine for some time. But between 12 hours and 2 days it seems that the spring boot appl

Answer 1

Per a senior member in the Spring forums, the Spring DataSource is not intended for production use:

The above answers are only part of the solution. Indeed you need proper transaction managent AND you need a connection pool. The DriverManagerDataSource is NOT meant for production, it opens and closes a datebase connection each time it needs one.

Instead you can use C3P0 as your DataSource which handles the reconnect and is much better in performance. Here's a quick example of a potential configuration in a Spring xml configuration: