The use of c3p0.idle_test_period.

Question

I\'m new to c3op, and confused about the use of :

c3p0.idle_test_period

In this link : HowTo configure the C3P0 connection pool

Answer 1

I think this setting is used in hibernate in order to validate pooled connection after every few seconds . Consider a scenario if on database side, password is changed. Hibernate already pooled connections on old password. So it is security breach having pool with wrong password.So when hibernate will validate after few seconds it . It will invalidate that pooled connection.