do we need to close context in websphere

[info babu]

Hello
Any body can tell me i am doing a connection pooling programe in websphere 3.0.2 and back end is DB2 as400

when i was writting a program i forgot close the connection context.close in my programe
do i need to close alway this context.
Because my connection pooling programe is faiiling , i could not able to find the reason. i think it may one reason.
can any body tell me do i need to close it(context.close())
I would appricate any bodys help
Thank YOu
Babu

[Kyle Brown]

If you mean close each Connection the answer is YES. Closing a connection returns it to the connection pool in the datasource. Otherwise, it will remain "used" until the reaper thread recovers it (the default timeout here is 30 minutes -- see the Websphere admin documentation on DataSource setup).
If you mean InitialContexts or Datasources, no you do not close them.
Kyle
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