Hi all,
My teammate and I have been working on an internal program and things are going pretty well at this point. He designed most of the
JDBC stuff, and while it works -- I'm not very happy with the implementation. Basically, there is a static class variable like this:
Then inside of each method we obtain a new connection, and then close it out when the method finishes like this:
So my main concern (besides the crappy variable naming scheme), is that each method is opening a new connection and then closing it. This seems horribly inefficient. Couldn't we simply create one method that will obtain a connection if it's null, but return an existing connection otherwise? For example, I would like to do something like this:
Actually, even better would be to just store the database info as instance (or class) variables in the class and then just invoke getConnection() without any arguments. I'm curious though -- is there any reason that we shouldn't be doing things the second way? It seems like a much better way of handling connections to me...