Commons DBCP is a specific (and popular) connection pool implementation that uses the DataSource interface. DataSource itself is part of the
Java 2 core platform; for more information, see
the javadoc and the JDBC API Tutorial and Reference, 3rd ed., by Fisher et al.
- Peter
PS. disclosure: I was one of the tech reviewers for this book.
[ August 31, 2004: Message edited by: Peter den Haan ]