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Connection handling in large web apps

 
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Howdy
I want to know what is the most efficient way to handle DB connections in a large and high traffic web app.

Currently I m using a DriverManager connection to execute DB queries and updates.

This *single* connection was created in my context listener and I m using it through out the application for all components to use.

I still haven't published the web app to the internet yet so I haven't fully tested it out..

I want to know what are the pros and cons of using my current method and would I get connection pooling? also if there is a better way to handle this issue.

my code looks like:


[ December 05, 2008: Message edited by: Eric Damps ]
 
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Eric,
This would not give you connection pooling - you need multiple connections for that. Connection pooling is critical for large apps. See DBCP for an open source one.
 
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Thanks Jeanne,
Probably I'd be using DataSource instead.

I've got another question about my current implementation. Can this single connection be used by more than one user at a time concurrently or is it synchronized? note that I'm actually establishing a connection to the DB before bounding the Conn. object into the context, and later just getting the Conn. object and use it to query DB.
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Originally posted by Eric Damps:
Can this single connection be used by more than one user at a time concurrently or is it synchronized?


It looks like multiple users can try to use it at the same time. That wouldn't go well for them though.
 
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