[Proxool-developer] Where to install Proxool (was Bug 673073)

[Bill H. <bi...@lo...>]

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 02:12, Martin Crawford wrote:

> You want one instance of proxool per VM to ensure the Singleton pattern
> is enforced. By deploying the JAR with each individual application, you
> end up creating multiple instances of the Proxool framework. Thus
> breaking the Singleton pattern.
> 
> Imagine a Servlet container connecting to the same database for several
> different web applications. You would not benefit from the beauty of
> managing your pools efficiently across all applications. 

We should definitely document that sort of behaviour. I just tried to
test that out but came across some class loading problems with the
commons-logging (I'm using Tomcat 4.1.18). Martin, have you got this
working? Does it behave as expected (on application reload)? 

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  Bill Horsman
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