Follow-up question. Should I or should I not use the ConnectionPool
implementation provided by IBM in their JDBC driver? And if I should, do
the parameters provided by DBCP still apply? I have to admit, I'm a bit
fuzzy on what role which component is playing in this game!

Thanks!!

Shapira, Yoav wrote:

Hi,
DBCP will NOT gracefully recover by itself.  You need to configure it
according to your desired behavior.  Specifically, check out the
testOnBorrow, testOnReturn, and testWhileIdle properties at
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp/configuration.html.

Yoav Shapira http://www.yoavshapira.com




-----Original Message-----
From: Ruth, Brice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 11:32 AM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: DBCP/JNDI/Realms

Good morning!

I've been running into an intermittent problem with my database
connections for authentication. It appears that periodically, the
iSeries (DB2/400) that I connect to terminates all incoming ODBC/JDBC
connections (one a week, apparently). What happens in my application is
that users can no longer login after the connections have been dropped.
The connection pool apparently doesn't try to re-initiate the
connections after they've been dropped.

I see an exception in my logs regarding the connection being reset,


then


I see an exception relating to the pool being exhausted. I'm not
entirely sure what the root cause of the problem here is - in theory,
DBCP should recover gracefully when a connection is reset/dropped,


right?


Here's the initial exception:
java.sql.SQLException: Communication link failure.(Connection was
dropped unexpectedly.)
at


com.ibm.as400.access.JDError.throwSQLException(JDError.java:365)


at
com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCConnection.send(AS400JDBCConnection.java(


Comp


iled
Code))
at
com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCConnection.send(AS400JDBCConnection.java(


Inli


ned
Compiled Code))
at
com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCStatement.syncRPB(AS400JDBCStatement.java


(Com


piled
Code))
at
com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCStatement.commonPrepare(AS400JDBCStatemen


t.ja


va(Compiled
Code))
at
com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCPreparedStatement.<init>(AS400JDBCPrepare


dSta


tement.java(Compiled
Code))
at
com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCConnection.prepareStatement(AS400JDBCConn


ecti


on.java(Compiled
Code))
at
com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCConnection.prepareStatement(AS400JDBCConn


ecti


on.java(Compiled
Code))
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingConnection.prepareStatement(Delegatin


gCon


nection.java(Compiled
Code))
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolingDataSource$PoolGuardConnectionWrapper.pr


epar


eStatement(PoolingDataSource.java(Compiled
Code))
at
org.apache.catalina.realm.DataSourceRealm.credentials(DataSourceRealm.j


ava:


460)
[snip]

Here's the next one:
2004-12-06 04:39:21 DataSourceRealm[]: Exception performing


authentication


org.apache.commons.dbcp.SQLNestedException: Cannot get a connection,
pool exhausted
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.PoolingDataSource.getConnection(PoolingDataSour


ce.j


ava(Compiled
Code))
at
org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource.getConnection(BasicDataSource.j


ava(


Compiled
Code))
at
org.apache.catalina.realm.DataSourceRealm.open(DataSourceRealm.java:438


)


at
org.apache.catalina.realm.DataSourceRealm.authenticate(DataSourceRealm.


java


:277)
[snip]

So, what I've done now to see if it helps matters any, is specify the
AS400's own connection pool factory in my JNDI definition, like so:

    <parameter>
      <name>factory></name>

<value>com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCConnectionPoolDataSource</value>
    </parameter>

Both Tomcat's form authentication as well as my application (through
iBATiS) use this JNDI DataSource for connections.

Can anyone shed more light on what the root cause of the problem is
here? Should DBCP gracefully recover?

Regards,
Brice Ruth

--
Brice Ruth, Sr. IT Analyst
Fiskars Brands Inc
http://www.fiskarsbrands.com/


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