Validation Query in org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool

Question

I'm recntly doing some tests with the new Tomcat JDBC connection pool (org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool, version 7.0.20). My understanding of using the validation query is, when I'm e.g. rebooting the database and the pool looses all connections, it automatically tries to recover them.

Here the initialization Code:

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PoolProperties p = new PoolProperties();
p.setUrl(connString);
p.setDriverClassName("org.postgresql.Driver");
p.setJmxEnabled(true);
p.setTestWhileIdle(false);
p.setTestOnBorrow(true);
p.setValidationQuery("SELECT version();");
p.setTestOnReturn(false);
p.setValidationInterval(30000);
p.setTimeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis(30000);
p.setMaxActive(maximumDbConnections);
p.setInitialSize(1);
p.setMaxWait(10000);
p.setRemoveAbandonedTimeout(60);
p.setMinEvictableIdleTimeMillis(30000);
p.setMinIdle(minimumIdleDbConnections);
p.setMaxIdle(maximumIdleDbConnections);
p.setLogAbandoned(true);
p.setRemoveAbandoned(true);
p.setInitSQL("SET application_name = 'My Server'");
datasource = new DataSource();
datasource.setPoolProperties(p);

...

In then I start a timer and everytime it fires, I get the connection from the pool:

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Connection conn = App.datasource.getConnection();

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When Im booting the database, it's not trying to revover the connections as expacted, I always receive the following exception:

[2011-08-22 23:50:53,066][871009][ERROR]{DbPollThread - 1}  [0144] SQLException while checking for hangig jobs
java.sql.SQLException: Connection has already been closed.
    at org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ProxyConnection.invoke(ProxyConnection.java:118)
    at $Proxy2.prepareStatement(Unknown Source)
    at org.voxtelo.faxserver.internal.database.FaxDatabaseHandler.resetOrDeactivateHangingJobs(FaxDatabaseHandler.java:404)
    at org.voxtelo.faxserver.internal.database.FaxDatabaseHandler.pollJobsFromDB(FaxDatabaseHandler.java:884)
    at org.voxtelo.faxserver.internal.database.FaxDatabaseHandler.access$1(FaxDatabaseHandler.java:882)
    at org.voxtelo.faxserver.internal.database.FaxDatabaseHandler$PollDatabaseTask.run(FaxDatabaseHandler.java:940)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRunAndReset(FutureTask.java:317)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:150)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$101(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:98)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.runPeriodic(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180)
    at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:204)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

Answer 1

Finally I found out the issue by my self. The code

conn = App.datasource.getConnection();

where I'm getting the connection was not reached anymore when the exception was thrown. So all oprations were still done on the old, broken connection. Now I make sure that conn = App.datasource.getConnection(); is always called before a db operation and everything works as expected.