+1 for 4.3

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi devs,
>
> I was trying to make XEM work with HSQLDB and... I have succeeded :)
>
> The only problem I have is that DBCP doesn't seem to work with Hibernate. For 
> some weird reasons when we do a SET SCHEMA it makes calls to fail afterwards. 
> In any case if I configure Hibernate to not use DBCP all work just fine.
>
> I've googled around and found that there are lots of people complaining about 
> DBCP.
>
> I've googled for what connection pooling library to use and I've found that 
> most people are recommending BoneCP (http://jolbox.com/).
>
> See:
> * 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5640146/java-jdbc-connection-pool-library-choice-in-2011-2012
> * http://www.jorambarrez.be/blog/2012/04/30/dbcp_vs_c3p0_bonecp/
> * 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8057110/java-database-connection-pool-bonecp-vs-dbpool-vs-c3p0
>
> The other thing is that we currently have some 300 line of code that we 
> shouldn't have at all and that we need in XWiki just for handling DBCP (see 
> com.xpn.xwiki.store.DBCPConnectionProvider).
>
> The pro of BoneCP is that it seems to be the fastest, see 
> http://jolbox.com/benchmarks.html
>
> So here's what I'd like to propose:
>
> * We move  DBCPConnectionProvider to a legacy module
> * We bundle the bonecp jar by default
> * We configure our hibernate.cfg.xml by default to use boneCP:
>
>     <property name="bonecp.idleMaxAge">240</property>
>     <property name="bonecp.idleConnectionTestPeriod">60</property>
>     <property name="bonecp.partitionCount">3</property>
>     <property name="bonecp.acquireIncrement">10</property>
>     <property name="bonecp.maxConnectionsPerPartition">60</property>
>     <property name="bonecp.minConnectionsPerPartition">20</property>
>     <property name="bonecp.statementsCacheSize">50</property>
>     <property name="bonecp.releaseHelperThreads">3</property>
>
>     <property 
> name="connection.provider_class">com.jolbox.bonecp.provider.BoneCPConnectionProvider</property>
>
> What this means:
> * Existing users of XWiki will not have to change anything, it'll still work
> * New users will use bonecp without knowing
> * Existing users can migrate to bonecp just by changing one line in their 
> hibernate.cfg.xml file
>
> I'd love to do this for 4.3 but we're already quite advanced in the 4.x 
> cycle. That said it's just a one line change in hibernate.cfg.xml in case of 
> problem to go back to DBCP so we could do this for 4.3 which leaves us 4.3, 
> 4.4 and 4.5 to test this out. And if later on we find an issue we'll always 
> be able to release a 4.5.1 that has this one line change to go back to DBCP.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Here's my +1 for this action plan.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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