Setup Connection Pooling in Spring MVC - spring

Question

How can I setup connection pooling in Spring MVC? I am working on an intranet website powered by Spring MVC 2.5 and jQuery. This is my first attempt at web development.
I am not sure but, I am only using this in my spring configuration file and I saw this in the Spring MVC step By Step tutorial
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
</bean>
<bean id="propertyConfigurer"
class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
<property name="locations">
<list>
<value>classpath:jdbc.properties</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
This looks good during development and connection speed is fast but I am not sure if this will still holds true if many users are concurrently connected.
How can I achieve this? I have read that this is not an optimal connection datasource.

Answer 1

You might want to look at c3p0, which has some powerful configuration and optimization available.
<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource">
<property name="driverClass" value="..." />
<property name="jdbcUrl" value="..." />
<property name="user" value="..." />
<property name="password" value="..." />
</bean>

Answer 2

Your current setup is correct, all you need to do in order to use basic connection pooling is use a DataSource implementation provided by a connection pooling library, in your case Apache DBCP. See this post for a few links to other alternatives, C3P0 being one of them.
Note that when you actually use the DataSource bean you're injecting wrap it in a SimpleJdbcTemplate or use DataSourceUtils to obtain a Connection - see Spring JDBC Documentation

Answer 3

For connection Pooling
<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource"
destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
<property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
<property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}" />
<property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}" />
//Add this two more parameters
<property name="**initialSize**" value="20" />
<property name="**maxActive**" value="30" />
</bean>
connection pool will create 20 database connection as initialSize is 20 and goes up to 30 Database connection if required as maxActive is 30.