How to do: Oracle Connection Pooling in Spring

There lies a plethora of database connection pooling frameworks in the industry like Apache DBCP, C3P0, BoneCP etc., for Oracle Database.  Based on my technical experience I would say The Oracle Connection pooling is the numero uno in its category and no second thought on it.

Here you go – Defining data source bean in ApplicationContext

<bean id="oracleDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="URL" value="${jdbc.url}" />
    <property name="user" value="${jdbc.username}" />
    <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
    <property name="connectionCacheProperties">
        <props merge="default">
            <prop key="MinLimit">3</prop>
            <prop key="MaxLimit">10</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

That’s it. Refer the oracleDataSource bean to Hibernate.

Sample definition of dataSource in Hibernate

<!-- Hibernate SessionFactory -->
<bean id="sessionFactory" autowire="autodetect">
	<!-- Tell hibernate to use given datasource -->
	<property name="dataSource" ref="oracleDataSource" />
	<property name="hibernateProperties">
		<props>
			<prop key="hibernate.dialect">...</prop>
			...
		</props>
	</property>
</bean>

Recommend for production purpose!

Properties of OracleConnectionPoolDataSource