You create a JDBC Connection using Driver manager by using something like the following code
now this operation is expesive so you might want to implement a factory which creates a conection pool.
Also you might not want to right the boiler plate code again and again so dtasource to the rescue ....
Use a Project like apache DBCP
http://commons.apache.org/dbcp/
create an instance of org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource class supply it with the Driver Name,Username ,Password ,URL
Simply get the connection by calling a getter no boiler plate code needed.