Features

• Highly scalable, fast connection pool
• Callback (hook interceptor) mechanisms on a change of connection state.
• Partitioning capability to increase performance
• Allows direct access to a connection/statements
• Automatic resizing of pool
• Statement caching support
• Support for obtaining a connection asynchronously (by returning a Future<Connection>)
• Release helper threads to release a connection/statement in an asynchronous fashion for higher performance.
• Easy mechanism to execute a custom statement on each newly obtained connection (initSQL).
• Support to switch to a new database at runtime without shutting down an application
• Ability to replay any failed transaction automatically (for the case where database/network goes down etc)
• JMX support
• Lazy initialization capable
• Support for XML/property configuration
• Idle connection timeouts / max connection age support
• Automatic validation of connections (keep-alives etc)
• Allow obtaining of new connections via a datasource rather than via a Driver
• Datasource/Hibernate support capable
• Debugging hooks to highlight the exact place where a connection was obtained but not closed
• Debugging support to show stack locations of connections that were closed twice.
• Custom pool name support.
• Clean organised code. 100% unit test branch code coverage (over 180 JUnit tests).
• Free, open source and written in 100% pure Java with complete Javadocs.