Hi Rainer. I am having the same confusion as you. Based on testing the time required to get each connection, it appears as though the standard JNDI DataSource lookups do not return any sort of a pooled connection - it took virtually identical times to get a connection from the JNDI DataSource as it did from a standard JDBC connection call.
I've tried implementing the latest pooling factory as set out by Craig (using org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory), but I can't get this to work. No matter what I try to do I always get the following error when I try to get a connection from the returned DataSource: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:380) at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.createDataSource(Unknown Source) at org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(Unknown Source) at ubc.pubs.server.security.DBAccess.getDBConnection(DBAccess.java:47) at ubc.pubs.server.security.DBAccess.getConnection(DBAccess.java:26) Anyways, that's my 2 cents worth... If anybody can help with info on getting a jdbc connection pool going, I would be greatly appreciative. pete. > Hi, I am getting a little confused about the topic weather Tomcat 4.x ist > having a Connection Pooling implementet or not. I was following the discussions > the last few days and the answers have been a little contradicting. Therfore my > question loud and clear ; ) Is there a Connection Pooling using JNDI with >Tomcat 4.x or not? Below some postings concerning this topic from the last few >days... > >Thanks Rainer _______________________________________________________ Pete Clearwater Systems Analyst Enrolment Services Student Systems Brock Hall tel: 604.822.8662 2016-1874 East Mall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vancouver BC, Canada, V6T 1Z1 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>