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> Subject: RE: [OFFTOPIC??] RE: dbcp connection and database restart
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> Angus,
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> You can call Conection.isClosed(), but the documentation
> suggests that this
> is not a reliable method of telling that it is _definitely_ closed.
> Ho
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> From: Angus Mezick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 09 July 2003 15:53
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: [OFFTOPIC??] RE: dbcp connection and database restart
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>
> Is there a better way of doing this? Even if I 'select 1 from TABLE' I
> don'
Is there a better way of doing this? Even if I 'select 1 from TABLE' I
don't like the fact that there is an extra DB communication for every
connection I get from the pool. I don't know if there are alternatives
to this in DBCP but are there any other ways to ask if a connection in a
pool is stil