Philip,
Please answer each of the following questions, and let's see if we can figure this out.
1) You bat files simply start and stop your application server that is acting as the container for your servlets?
2) Are you attempting to keep a connection/connections to the database open from the initialization of the servlet to it's destruction?
3) When you say you catch the
JDBC exception when the connection is down, do you attempt to recreate it?
Regards,
Byron Estes
Byron Estes<br />Sun Certified Enterprise Architect<br />Senior Consulant<br />Blackwell Consulting Services<br />Chicago, IL<br /><a href="http://www.bcsinc.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.bcsinc.com</a>