Thank you very much Peter!

- Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Donald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 5:31 PM
To: Avalon Developers List
Subject: Re: DataSource usage and docs

Hi,

On Thu, 2 May 2002 06:39, Robert wrote:
> I am curious about the features of the Excalibur datasource component
in
> comparison to what is going on in the Commons DBCP project. We are
> currently using PoolMan as our pooling mechanism as it seemed highly
> recommended on the Struts list, but it is no longer supported by the
> author, so we are looking for possible alternatives. 

PoolMan is a great product and if you are happy with it then I wouldn't
give 
up on it yet. Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (another Apache
guy) 
has taken over maintanence and management of PoolMan so it should live
on ;)

As for comparing PoolMan vs the others (Commons and Excalibur). The
basic 
difference is that the PoolMan does more caching and will safely close
all 
used resources when you "close" the connection. ie If you forgot to
close a 
ResultSet and then closed the connection, neither commons nor excalibur
will 
close the ResultSet for you (at least not last time I looked).

Excaliburs one is a little faster than PoolMan but more importantly it
is 
already integrated into Avalon framework. However it may be a better
idea for 
you to wrap PoolMan in an Avalon componant (with same interface as
Excaliburs 
Datasource) if you already rely on features of PoolMan.

-- 
Cheers,

Peter Donald


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