What is the difference between Connection Pooling and Object Pooling

[Mahendran Aiyappan]

Can any one specify the difference between Connection Pooling and Object Pooling.I have studied about Connection Pooling, like sharing one or two connections by more than one beans. But Object pooling...


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Mahendran

[Masoud Kalali]

Connection pooling is an specefic kind of object pooling .
in connection pooling we create some connections in a pool and give them to any client who need to use a connection , the the user turn back the connection to the pool after it complete its task.
connections remaining in the pool is configurable , you can configure how much time a connection should stay idel , pool size, time out , increment policy .....


in object pooling we create a pool of objects that are not easy to instaciate , we create them and put them in the pool , and when we want to use them there is no need to instanciate the Object again , instead we may change some of its properties.

usually pooling used when creating and destroying some objects are resource consumer.


hth

[Mahendran Aiyappan]

Thank you very much Mr.Masoud Kalali