Parameters

NOTE: If maxIdle is set too low on heavily loaded systems it is possible you will see connections being closed and almost immediately new connections being opened. This is a result of the active threads momentarily closing connections faster than they are opening them, causing the number of idle connections to rise above maxIdle. The best value for maxIdle for heavily loaded system will vary but the default is a good starting point.

This component has also the ability to pool PreparedStatements. When enabled a statement pool will be created for each Connection and PreparedStatements created by one of the following methods will be pooled:

• public PreparedStatement prepareStatement(String sql)
• public PreparedStatement prepareStatement(String sql, int resultSetType, int resultSetConcurrency)

NOTE - Make sure your connection has some resources left for the other statements. Pooling PreparedStatements may keep their cursors open in the database, causing a connection to run out of cursors, especially if maxOpenPreparedStatements is left at the default (unlimited) and an application opens a large number of different PreparedStatements per connection. To avoid this problem, maxOpenPreparedStatements should be set to a value less than the maximum number of cursors that can be open on a Connection.

When allowed you can access the underlying connection using the following construct:

    Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
                        Connection dconn = ((DelegatingConnection) conn).getInnermostDelegate();
                        ...
                        conn.close()
                        

Default is false, it is a potential dangerous operation and misbehaving programs can do harmfull things. (closing the underlying or continue using it when the guarded connection is already closed) Be carefull and only use when you need direct access to driver specific extentions.

NOTE: Do not close the underlying connection, only the original one.

If you have enabled "removeAbandoned" then it is possible that a connection is reclaimed by the pool because it is considered to be abandoned. This mechanism is triggered when (getNumIdle() < 2) and (getNumActive() > getMaxActive() - 3)

For example maxActive=20 and 18 active connections and 1 idle connection would trigger the "removeAbandoned". But only the active connections that aren't used for more then "removeAbandonedTimeout" seconds are removed, default (300 sec). Traversing a resultset doesn't count as being used.