Thank you Marvin and Curtis. Both responses were helpful. Based on reading the link on the c3p0 datasource I added the following to my datasource:
p:testConnectionOnCheckin="true" p:idleConnectionTestPeriod="60" -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
