David,

--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, David Jencks <david_jencks@...>
wrote:

> To reiterate and summarize:
> -- Only someone who is writing a framework or container should be
> using ConnectionPoolDataSource or XADataSource directly.

I agree. That's even written black on white in the XAConnection javadoc:
"An application programmer does not use this interface directly;
rather, it is used by a transaction manager working in the middle tier
server."

> -- We should provide a miniature framework that exposes a DataSource
> and provides connection pooling and XA when a TransactionManager is
> provided.

I disagree. I think that writing a connection pool that exposes
DataSource interface using XAConnection internally is the
responsibility of the container, not the JDBC driver.


Ludovic