title: MySQL connection pooling with embedded Jetty
body: <p>I have a working WebSocket server based on the current release of Jetty. It runs as an embedded server, mainly because I don't know anything about writing servlets and embedding Jetty seems to be one of the few well documented things with this server.</p>
  
  <p>So it works well until now. Incoming requests are stored in a MySQL database. Since there can be very many of these requests I would like to use connection pooling so that I don't lose time when opening and closing connections each time. And that seems to be a problem since I cannot find any good documentation about connection pooling with embedded Jetty and MySQL. I guess it cannot be that hard but I'm missing the idea where to start.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone already implemented connection pooling with Jetty and can show me the right direction?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update:</strong>
  I've implemented connection pooling using the C3P0 library. That seems to work fine. But since Jetty supports connection pooling to, I guess I should rather use that instead of some third party library.</p>