title: Tomcat JDBC connection pool VS c3p0 Connection pool
body: <p>I recently came across this connection pool implementation.</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/jdbc-pool/jdbc-pool.html" rel="noreferrer">http://people.apache.org/~fhanik/jdbc-pool/jdbc-pool.html</a></p>
  
  <p>I find it quite interesting.</p>
  
  <p>Did anyone try this out? I think it looks great except the fact that it does not support automatic retry and statement cache like c3p0.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone one know how it compares to c3p0? </p>
  
  <p>Till now I used c3p0 but I find it's connection handling in a multi-thread environment problematic. It opens way too much connections compared to number of application threads.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>