I think its better to direct these questions to the dbcp guys; dbcp is, as is usual for Jakarta stuff, extremely undocumented - but _someone_ must know the answers to these questions.
I *don't*; I've ALWAYS used an appserver datasource in production.
If you can't get definitive answers from dbcp guys, try out c3p0 or proxool. I *know* that Steve Waldman will support c3p0 properly.
There are a lot of bugs with DBCP, but Dirk is working on applying available patches to the current 1.X branch to get a better release out there.
At the same time, there's been a lot of discussion about how to improve the design for a major 2.0 rewrite. It's getting there, but we haven't reached consensus on the 2.0 release.
If you can switch to another database connection pooler in the meantime, you might want to give it a whirl. DBCP can work reasonably well, but can be a pain to get configured right. Post any specific questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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