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+The DBCP Component
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+   Many Jakarta projects support interaction with a relational database.
+   Creating a new connection for each user can be time consuming (often
+   requiring multiple seconds of clock time), in order to perform a
+   database transaction that might take milliseconds. Opening a
+   connection per user can be unfeasible in a publicly-hosted Internet
+   application where the number of simultaneous users can be very large.
+   Accordingly, developers often wish to share a "pool" of open
+   connections between all of the application's current users. The number
+   of users actually performing a request at any given time is usually a
+   very small percentage of the total number of active users, and during
+   request processing is the only time that a database connection is
+   required. The application itself logs into the DBMS, and handles any
+   user account issues internally.
+
+   There are several Database Connection Pools already available, both
+   within Jakarta products and elsewhere. This Commons package provides
+   an opportunity to coordinate the efforts required to create and
+   maintain an efficient, feature-rich package under the ASF license.
+
+   The commons-dbcp package relies on code in the commons-pool package to
+   provide the underlying object pool mechanisms that it utilizes.
+
+WWW: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/dbcp