[Proxool-developer] 0.6.4

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

Hi all,

I've just released version 0.6.4 (release candidate 1 for 0.7). It's
"hidden" and only available from the dev web site:

  http://proxool.sourceforge.net/dev/

Follow the links on the download page if you want to grab a copy and see
if there are any problems with it.

If all goes well I will be releasing 0.7 in the next day or so. Need to
be reminded of all that has changed since 0.6?

- We have dropped the dependency on commons-logging.jar by copying the
code into our own project (retaining credit to the Jakarta team,
naturally). 

- New Admin package provides statistical and snapshot information so you
can measure how well Proxool, and your database, is doing. 

- New AdminServlet provides statistical information for your web
application. 

- The JDK 1.2 patch code has been brought up to date and now passes all
the unit tests. 

- The listener code has been redone. Proxool now allows multiple
listeners per pool. setFooListener has now been deprecated in favour of
addFooListener. And it's now thread safe (just in case you add or remove
a listener while the pool is running). 

- The new ServletConfigurator will help you to configure and shutdown
your pools simply by adding a few lines to your servlet configuration
(web.xml) file and perhaps writing an XML file. No changes to your Java
code. 

- By using ShutdownHooks (with JDK1.3 or later) we get a cleaner, more
reliable shutdown of the pools when the JVM stops. 

- Fixed bug when you asked DatabaseMetaData for the connection. It now
gives you back the Proxool connection, not the underlying delegate
connection. 

- Fixed bug where if you registered, removed and then re-registered a
pool then the new pool would not notice the Properties passed to it. 

- (late edition not in changelog yet) if a connection encounters a fatal
sql exception it wakes up the house keeper thread so other connections
are tested as soon as possible.

Regards,
-- 
  Bill Horsman
  Proxool
  http://proxool.sourceforge.net
  ICQ: 119577180