[c3p0-users] c3p0 fast fail question

[Alan G. <ala...@gm...>]

Hi,

I'm using c3p0 to manage a connection pool to a remote mysql server.  The
server is maintained by a third party and is not a critical component of our
application.

The problem is that on application startup, if the mysql server is down, the
whole application fails to start.  It hangs on creating the connection pool.

What I need is for it to fail and then when the application requests a
connection from the pool, it should re-attempt a connection.  The important
thing is that the application needs to continue to run despite having a bad
connection.

Could someone point me in the right direction for this problem?  c3p0 seems
very configurable, I feel like this must be possible :-)

Thanks,
AG