To answer your first question. No. External applications will be running in their own jvm and thus will be unable to see it.
As for a solution, Tomcat is open source and their is nothing to stop you from using the code they use to create their pool. Otherwise there are several hits on google and java connection pools. But the simple way is to go here: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/ Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elam Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 5:26 PM Subject: Can Tomcat share it's connection pool? > Hi all, > > If I set up a connection pool for my web apps using Tomcat, can that > pool be used > by external java applications? If not, can anyone recommend some solutions? > > Thanks, > Elam Daly > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
