> From: Jerry Malcolm [mailto:2ndgenfi...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: connection autoReconnect?
> Basically, TC grabs a handful of connections and > opens them up. The Tomcat JDBC pool (not sure about the commons one) opens up whatever is configured for initialSize. > Then when an app needs one, a random connection is provided > from the pool. Don't bet on it being random. It may well have changed from a round-robin to a LIFO mechanism (that would explain your symptoms). > in TC 5, if the luck of the draw gave me a closed connection, > autoReconnect would fire it back up No - you would get the exception first, then the connection would be recreated. Likely you never got to the point where autoReconnect kicked in. > But for some reason now, I've got to write code to check each > connection I get back to see if it's connected. I don't think anyone has suggested anything of the sort. Turn off autoReconnect and use testOnBorrow instead. No changes are needed in your code, just your configuration. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org