(1) Which connection pool is best for Hibernate? - Quora

(1) Which connection pool is best for Hibernate? - Quora

As per my knowledge C3P0 is the mostly used and simplified connection pool with Hibernate.

C3P0 is an open source connection pool which has a Hibernate package which you can add as dependency to your project and you are ready to configure the pool.

It's very easy to configure and using in our projects with Hibernate.

Here is the Configuration of C3P0:

To configure C3P0 with your application you need the following properties set. In this case let's see the already known XML-based configuration in hibernate.cfg.xml:

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