Connection to the database in Web-Application (JSP apps.)

[Smith Li]

I have some questions regarding how you maintain connection to the database when building web applications.

1.) What's the best practice to maintain connection to the database to get data from it?
Is it request-scope, session-scope, or application-scope?

2.) Currently I have a session-scope bean that maintains connections to the database. The problem is if I open the browser overnight and the came back in the morning, I get some CommunicationsLinkFailure exception. I think this is because the session has died. How should I handle this?

Thanks in advance for all the help.

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Rudy Rusli:
1.) What's the best practice to maintain connection to the database to get data from it?
Is it request-scope, session-scope, or application-scope?

None of the above. Maintaining connection information in the UI tier is a strongly discouraged practice. You should be using container-managed connection pooling. Are you using Tomcat?

2.) Currently I have a session-scope bean that maintains connections to the database. ... How should I handle this?

See above.

[Smith Li]

Yes, I'm using Tomcat. What do you mean by 'container-managed connection pooling'?