Re: DBCP 1.3/1.4

2009-12-09 Thread Tim Funk
If you can swing moving jdbc-pool as the next gen commons-dbcp - that would be sweet. In which case, jdbc-pool would no longer exist and we'd only be left with dbcp. Which leaves us with the tomcat 6 vs no access to JDBC4 - but some faqs can point the user on how to download the needed extra

Re: DBCP 1.3/1.4

2009-12-09 Thread Mark Thomas
Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote: > the only downside to my suggestions above is that jdbc-pool doesn't have > much developer community around it. > the usage of it has grown, and the bug reports have been very few and no > major issues are outstanding. > unless we can build a community around it, w

Re: DBCP 1.3/1.4

2009-12-08 Thread Kevin Jackson
Hi, > familiar in what sense? how would jdbc-pool be unfamiliar in terms of > config? > I would say the opposite, most users wouldn't even know the difference, > especially since we don't ship org.apache.commons.dbcp, but we refactor it > to org.apache.tomcat.dbcp This refactor has caused queries

Re: DBCP 1.3/1.4

2009-12-08 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
On 12/08/2009 11:04 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: Tim Funk wrote: [I know I'm missing something .. but] Would it be worth dropping dbcp from 7 and just use jdbc-pool? I think dropping dbcp would be bad - it is something that is familiar to lots of users. familiar in what sense? how would

Re: DBCP 1.3/1.4

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Thomas
Tim Funk wrote: > [I know I'm missing something .. but] Would it be worth dropping dbcp > from 7 and just use jdbc-pool? I think dropping dbcp would be bad - it is something that is familiar to lots of users. +1 to including jdbc-pool Which one to make the default? My very rough (not really tho

Re: DBCP 1.3/1.4

2009-12-08 Thread Tim Funk
[I know I'm missing something .. but] Would it be worth dropping dbcp from 7 and just use jdbc-pool? -Tim Mark Thomas wrote: Commons is close to the next DBCP release. I have been looking at this and there will, unfortunately, still be some Java 5 with JDBC 3 / Java 6 with JDBC 4 issues. It

DBCP 1.3/1.4

2009-12-08 Thread Mark Thomas
Commons is close to the next DBCP release. I have been looking at this and there will, unfortunately, still be some Java 5 with JDBC 3 / Java 6 with JDBC 4 issues. It isn't possible to work around them without a complete refactoring and/or multiple JARs and/or use of something like BCEL. Rather t