JDBCConnectionException

[Robert Light]

Does anyone know of a way to avoid having your JDBC connection timeout?  When my server goes idle, the connection drops and then subsequent hibernate requests fail with an underlying java.io.EOFException

I tried adding ?autoReconnect=true to my connection.url but that hasn't worked.
        <property name="connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/mysqlDB?autoReconnect=true</property>

Any other ideas?  Many thanks.

[Robert Light]

This also happens if the database server gets restarted.  Somehow hibernate needs to re-establish it's connections.

I'm using the built in hibernate connection pool….perhaps that is too simplistic.