I need to connect to HBase (0.94.12) from an application server - Jetty (Felix).
Documentation says the way to go is to get HConnection with HConnectionManager.createConnection(Configuration) use it to get table, close table and close connection. I also see that when creating an HConnection, a batchpool is created (lazy). Can I use one instance of HConnection to serve all HBase client requests on the server and close it only when the server goes down ? will it affect performance ? go stale ? how about regions cache, if new regions are created, do I need to create a new HConnection ? I think it might be a good idea to add a detailed explanation about HBase client management in the manual, maybe some best-practice advice or something like that. Thanks, Amit.
