Re: connection pool and authentication

1999-05-24 Thread Cezar Totth
Hi, On Mon, 24 May 1999, Guillaume ORIOL wrote: > what do you mean exactly ? Is the use of connection pools just a matter of > efficiency ? > > Yes, in most cases. Second reason is sparing DB-connection licenses. In some heavy-load moments you can have more opened sessions than available

Re: connection pool and authentication

1999-05-24 Thread Guillaume ORIOL
>Alternately do authentication with Connection objects and then >discard them and use the Connection pool. > >But this only gives you login authentication and adds significant >load to the the db server. > >Connection pools aren't always necessary. > >Think

Re: connection pool and authentication

1999-05-24 Thread Nic Ferrier
>>> Cezar Totth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/24/99 4:43:19 PM >>> > Some improvements are possible, to ease security rules implementation, > like using one pool (userid/pass) for "reporting" parts of your app, > and a pool with a more privileged userId for critical operations that > change important data

Re: connection pool and authentication

1999-05-24 Thread Cezar Totth
Hi, On Mon, 24 May 1999, Guillaume ORIOL wrote: > In a servlet/web architecture (browser-web server-servlet-database), > the servlet is the only program which directly accesses the database. > According to many messages I read in this mailing list, > the best solution for accessing database > wi

connection pool and authentication

1999-05-24 Thread Guillaume ORIOL
In a servlet/web architecture (browser-web server-servlet-database), the servlet is the only program which directly accesses the database. According to many messages I read in this mailing list, the best solution for accessing database within a servlet seems to be connection pooling. And if I am r