Clinton Thanks for all the information, I reworked my code and am now keeping SqlSessionFactory(ies) around in a hash to create sessions from them as I need them. I will check into the named environments as you suggest. Meanwhile a suggestion would be to have a way to pre-parse the iBatis configuration and allowing one to apply a set of properties on demand, so splitting the reader step and properties step in this process:
sqlSessionFactoryBuilder.build(reader, properties); make sense? Not sure how feasible or desirable this is given that I can keep SqlSessionFactory(ies) resident. Thanks again François On Mar 18, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Clinton Begin wrote: > You can also use named environments to manage different databases. And yes, > you'd need a single SqlSessionFactory for each -- but I wouldn't create them > on demand. I'd instantiate them and keep them resident. > > Clinton > > 2010/3/18 François Schiettecatte <fschietteca...@gmail.com> > Clinton > > Thanks for the information, and indeed my code creating the > SqlSessionFactoryBuilder() and the SqlSessionFactory() is wrong, which I will > fix. > > However there is an interesting issue around SqlSessionFactory() though, when > you take into account page 5, SqlSessionFactory() is geared toward setting up > a factory around a single host name/database name/user name so does not work > so well if you have multiple databases on multiple hosts. Unless there is a > way to set configuration XML file property values when I create a new > session, you have to use SqlSessionFactory().build(reader, properties) for > each host name/database name/user name you access. Or did I miss something > here ? > > Cheers > > François > > > On Mar 17, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Clinton Begin wrote: > > > I'm not sure what to say... this is not really an iBATIS issue. > > > > * First, you're purposefully going directly against a key part of the > > SqlSession contract. There's an entire section in the user guide about > > SqlSession lifecycle (Page 9) and you're completely ignoring it. This > > makes it very difficult to help you. > > > > * Keeping sessions (and therefore connections) open for long durations is > > a very bad practice. iBATIS won't do anything to help you there. We wrap > > connections with SqlSessions, thus to abuse one is to abuse the other. > > > > So I'm not sure there is any help for your situation. > > > > The most curious thing about your claim is that creating an iBATIS 3 > > SqlSession is more expensive than creating an iBATIS 2 SqlMapClient. I > > find that very hard to believe. > > > > The creation of the SqlSession is almost nothing. It's a few class > > instantiations (almost free in modern JVMs), some getter/setter calls, some > > field assignments. There is one array and one hashmap created (maybe a > > little cost there, but not much). The most expensive line in the creation > > of a SqlSession is this one: > > > > Connection connection = dataSource.getConnection(); > > > > This is entirely the cost incurred by your choice of DataSource. > > > > Compare that to the iBATIS 2 SqlMapClient, which had to parse XML, > > instantiate various maps, parse inline parameter maps and do tons of string > > manipulation. I just can't believe that your claim holds true. I'd love > > to see some numbers on that one, and a testing approach. Regardless, both > > creating multiple SqlMapClients and sharing SqlSessions are bad ideas, so > > the exercise would be strictly academic. > > > > So in a nutshell, I'm really not sure what I can do for you other than say: > > Best of luck. > > > > You're going far beyond the intended use of iBATIS and breaking clearly > > documented rules. > > > > Sorry. > > > > Clinton > > > > > > > > > > > > 2010/3/17 François Schiettecatte <fschietteca...@gmail.com> > > Hi > > > > I have not heard back from anyone on this issue (which I am running into), > > is it a bug or a non-issue? > > > > I went back and retested it and I get the "CommunicationsException" with > > the POOLED data source as well (so my original testing was not up to par). > > > > For me this will require some amount of rework if I want to minimize the > > performance penalty I wrote about. > > > > Cheers > > > > François > > > > > > On Mar 12, 2010, at 3:54 PM, François Schiettecatte wrote: > > > > > I did run into some issues with connection pooling. Creating a > > > SqlSession() checks out a connection from the pool (I presume) and from > > > what I can tell it does not check it back in until you close the session, > > > so there is room for connections to timeout if I save them in a hash. > > > With C3P0 I would get a "CommunicationsException: Communications link > > > failure" when I used a connection which had timed out. On the other hand > > > the built-in POOLED data source did not have this issue. I was not able > > > to reliably get around this issue in C3P0 either by extending the timeout > > > at the server end, or by setting up a ping query. Maybe one way to deal > > > with this would be to check-out a connection from the pool at the start > > > of a transaction and check it back in at the end of the transaction. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-java-unsubscr...@ibatis.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: user-java-h...@ibatis.apache.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-java-unsubscr...@ibatis.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-java-h...@ibatis.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-java-unsubscr...@ibatis.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-java-h...@ibatis.apache.org