Marking Bad Connections

The DataSource implementation in the Enterprise Server provides a markConnectionAsBad method. A marked bad connection is removed from its connection pool when it is closed. The method signature is as follows:

public void markConnectionAsBad(java.sql.Connection con)

For example:

com.sun.appserv.jdbc.DataSource ds=
   (com.sun.appserv.jdbc.DataSource)context.lookup("dataSource");
Connection con = ds.getConnection();
Statement stmt = null;
try{
   stmt = con.createStatement();
   stmt.executeUpdate("Update");
}
catch (BadConnectionException e){
   dataSource.markConnectionAsBad(con) //marking it as bad for removal
}
finally{
   stmt.close();	
   con.close(); //Connection will be destroyed during close.
}