Are connection pools standard features of JDBC/J2EE?

Published: 23 May 2002

Are connection pools standard features of JDBC/J2EE?
J2EE application servers usually provide some kind of database connection pooling features. JDBC 2.0 defines an optional pooling package that vendors can implement. Since pooling is optional in JDBC 2.0, a developer should not rely on it being available in a generic sense. This lack of a generic pooling solution has lead to the development and availability of a number proprietary connection pooling solutions.

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