Dive into connection pooling with J2EE – Java World – Connection pooling is a technique used for sharing server resources among requesting clients. This article focuses on support for connection pooling of both database resources and nondatabase resources in a J2EE environment. Siva examines the JDBC 2.0, JMS 1.02, JNDI 1.2 Standard Extension APIs with regard to connection pooling and looks at some existing vendor implementations of those APIs. He then looks at the upcoming J2EE Connector Architecture 1.0 that would support a vendor-independent/pluggable approach to managing resource connections. (2,000 words) Dive into connection pooling with J2EE – Java World