Andrea Aime wrote:
> Simple: setting up a JNDI connection pool is _hard_ for most of the
> people (go ask Ben how much time he wasted setting it up, and
> I can tell you I cursed Tomcat for a good two hours before I got my
> JNDI pool working).

This is a documentation issue. Decent examples, such as Andrea's JNDI 
tutorial, make things much easier. I spent more time getting JNDI to 
work with embedded Jetty.

> Also, setting up those silly things requires changing
> the .war, which is another thing most people will not want to do.
> The random user will keep on using whatever we provide
> out of the box, so it better be good.

This is in my view the key issue: usability. Some users may not want to 
or may not be permitted to modify their container settings. We need to 
provide a connection pool local to the servlet to support these cases.

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au>
Software Engineer, CSIRO Exploration and Mining
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151, Australia

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