JDBC/Connectorj: Understanding connection pooling

Question

I think I need to understand the concept of connection pool a bit better. I\'m working in java with ConnectorJ and I deploy my servlet on a Apache Tomcat server. I\'ve been foll

Answer 1

Connections to the database are usually controlled by different username and password than what your users will use for authentication on the website. Typically it's only one user (often being a schema name). Connection pool will create required number of connections to the database with this user name and it will be your application responsibility to take incoming credentials from the web user and verify them against stored in the database.