Hello Tom,
Hmm, I'm not too sure why you need this behavior, but I think you should definitely ask the DBCP guys over at the commons-user mailing list.
I checked OJB.properties and I am using ConnectionFactoryPooledImpl.class . I kill the connections with the mysql administrator tool, simulating timed out connections. I discovered that the validation query is not called on non transactional requests. Is there a special reason for that? Is it maybe wise to check always when a new broker is called by PersistenceBrokerFactory.defaultPersistenceBroker()? Actually the code where the problem occured needed a transaction so i am happy that i discovered it this way ;-) Cheers, Dennis
