I believe you're looking for minIdle configuration property. Find more configuration details @ http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/configuration.html
Regards, Stevo. On May 9, 2011 8:23 PM, "Fernando O." <fot...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all I'm trying to migrate from C3p0 to dbcp and it looks like some (a lot of?) things are different. one of the more important problems im facing is that it looks like I can't specify a minimum amount of connections in the pool. so if I run a kill test, after initializing the pool with say 10 connections I see only 1 connection, no other connection gets created is there a way to get my 10 connections back without specifying "autoreconnect " in the jdbc url?
