Re: JDBC gripe list - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

On 29/03/2011 4:36 PM, Vitalii Tymchyshyn wrote:

> Please note that you will get into problems with classloaders and
> different containers. E.g. running a thread from classloader will
> prevent this classloader to be GCd. Tomcat handles this (with a lot of
> warnings), but it is not recommended practice. See
> http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=44353 or
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/533783/why-spawning-threads-in-j2ee-container-is-discouraged

Good point. When running under a container, it'd be best to get a thread
pool from the container via JNDI or using resource injection. that
should be fairly easily handled using a connection param.

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Craig Ringer

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