I just went through a project where we looked at using the commons pooling in a production application.
We found a number of serious problems with its use. Anyone considering production use of the commons pooling or any pooling product should be aware of these issues. We also documented some programming practices for using pooled connections. To see these look in the White Papers section of http://stealthis.athensgroup.com/presentations/ for Jakarta_Pooling.doc and Proper_JDBC.doc -- Frank
