I've not used DBCP specifically but are you sure you are committing your writes? Most pools will default rollback connections returned to the pool, if I am not mistaken.
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all. I've recently had a need to implement connection pooling > under > Tomcat 4.0.6 (I can't upgrade versions as per a mandate by my > employer). I > have read some posts that indicate that Tyrex does not actually pool > connections. I don't know for sure if that is true or not (any > definitive > answers here?), so I decided to use DBCP, since I knew that did. > > I grabbed the latest builds of DBCP, collections and pool (1.1, 2.1 > and 1.1 > respectively), stuck them in tomcat/common/lib, added my JNDI entry > to the > app's context in server.xml, added the proper ref tags in web.xml and > put > in the appropriate code to get a connection from the pool (set to > maxActive=50, maxIdle=50000, maxWait=1000 and minIdle=10). > > Now, I've got it up and running without much trouble. Everything > SEEMED to > be working fine, until I realized that all my database writes > (updates, > inserts, deletes) were NOT hitting the database. > > There are NO exceptions being thrown anywhere of any kind. All the > relevant objects (statements, connection, etc.) are non-null. Return > codes > from SQL executions where applicable seem to be what they should be. > Database reads work perfectly, which indicates everything is OK I > think (I > have a single class with a single method that gets the connection out > of > the pool and deals with all database access). > > My question is simple and obvious: anyone have any ideas why database > writes would be failing (maybe failing is the wrong word... simply > not > happening is more accurate) while reads succeed? It is an Oracle 9.2 > database by the way, using the Oracle thin JDBC driver (same driver > that is > used when I switch to manually creating connections in code rather > than > using JNDI and Tomcat's facilities). > > Frank W. Zammetti > Web Architect Consultant > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- > The contents of this email are the property of PNC. If it was not > addressed to you, you have no legal right to read it. If you think > you received it in error, please notify the sender. Do not forward or > copy without permission of the sender. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]