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JDBC and 

Database 

Chapter

Connection 

Pooling

Topics in This Chapter

  The seven basic steps in connecting to databases

  Simple database retrieval example

  Some utilities that simplify JDBC usage

  Formatting a database result as plain text or HTML

  An interactive graphical query viewer

  Precompiled queries

  A connection pool library

  A comparison of servlet performance with and without 

connection pooling

  Sharing connection pools

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