--- "Noel J. Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It appears clear that there are two camps, each with fairly strong
> views.
> Personally, I believe that both camps can be accomodated in a way that
> should satisfy both.
> 
> DBCP should focus on core pooling behavior related to connections and
> prepared statements, and leave policy issues to specialized subclasses. 
> If
> DBCP is clean, without any reclaiming of connections and properly setup
> to
> be subclassed, including subclassing a delegating connection, then
> whomever
> needs a specialized connection pool that reclaims connections based upon
> some policy can do so.
> 
> DelegatingConnection, and the rest of the core objects should be pure
> and
> focused only on the necessary behavior to implement connection pooling.
> DBCP should focus on what has to happen when a connection is requested
> or
> returned.  Behavior, not policy, should be the watch word.  There is
> enough
> behavior to deal with related to connection pooling, including ensuring
> the
> proper state of pooled connections.
> 
> Some of the "AbandonedTrace" behavior is still necessary to implement
> the
> JDBC specification.  Connections still need to track outstanding
> statements
> and results sets, which are closed by Connection.close().  

Agreed, but the way it was implemented was completely wrong.  The behavior
should not have been in a superclass and forced unrelated classes to
subclass it.

> However, the
> "abandoned" semantic is not in the specification.  It is perfectly
> permissible to leave a ResultSet or Statement open, and expect the
> connection to close it.  Nor is it necessary for DBCP to track leaks,
> regardless of whether or not it is implementing recovery.  Both of that
> behavior can be implemented by specialized subclasses.  

I agree.  Let DBCP focus on it's core responsibilities and provide easy
hooks to allow logging, policy decisions, etc.

David

> DBCP may wish to
> provide abstract classes that facilitate specialization.
> 
>       --- Noel
> 
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