Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Minor
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.1
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None
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Operating System: All
Platform: All
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28211
Description
It would be excellent if BasicDataSource had a "maxLifetime" property, for
specifying the maximum lifetime of a connection in the pool, no matter how long
it's been active or idle, and no matter whether it still seems to be alive.
Commons DBCP does not support this yet; it just offers various connection
validation means, which is not the same.
This is particularly relevant for MySQL Connector/J 3.0.x which tries to apply
some weird automatic recovery when a MySQL connection has timed out, resulting
in all sorts of issues. The best way to deal with this is to set the maximum
lifetime of a connection to 4 hours or the like: If it's older, simply kill it,
even if it's still alive at that point of time.
Note that Proxool (http://proxool.sourceforge.net) does have such a property,
namely "maximum-connection-lifetime". Resin's connection pool has a similar
property named "max-pool-time" (http://www.caucho.com/resin-2.1/ref/db-
config.xtp). I tend to prefer Commons DBCP, but the lack of such a property
forces me to look for alternative pools.
Juergen