Q 4 C. Bauer & G. King (5): Hibernate handles also connection pooling?

[Gian Franco]

Dear authors,

I was just talking to a colleague, who
mentioned sharing db sessions in order
to relieve the back end of the infamous
connection problems.

Does Hibernate touch this area, or
is it out of it's scope?

Cheers,

Gian Franco Casula

[Pradeep bhatt]

Yes, hibernate supports connection pooling.

[Pradeep bhatt]

You can read the qucik start guide here
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/quickstart.html

[Gian Franco]

Does this connection pooling also cross the
boundaries of a single web-application, that's
to say, can concurrent users fish from the
pool?

Cheers,

Gian Franco Casula

[Gavin King]

Hibernate does not implement connection pooling itself. Instead, it gets a JDBC connection from wherever you tell it to ;-)

If you use an application server datasource (which is best), the rules will be defined by the J2EE spec.

[Gian Franco]

Originally posted by Gavin King:
Hibernate does not implement connection pooling itself. Instead, it gets a JDBC connection from wherever you tell it to ;-)

If you use an application server datasource (which is best), the rules will be defined by the J2EE spec.

The big picture is becoming clear, thanks