After all Connections in pool close, access to connections is lost

Question

OAS version: 10G R2
OS: Windows 2006 server 64 bit
Java 4
Application is using Spring Hibernate and Struts
We are running an application on 10G R2 that once all the connections are closed in the pool they don't seem to come back. This forces us to have to restart the container. Here is a look at our data-sources.xml file:
<data-source
          class="com.evermind.sql.DriverManagerDataSource"
          name="ACMS-Datasource-Oracle"
          location="jdbc/ACMS-Datasource-Oracle-Core"
          xa-location="jdbc/ACMS-XADatasource-Oracle"
          ejb-location="jdbc/ACMS-Datasource-Oracle"
          connection-driver="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
          min-connections="5"
          max-connections="25"
          username="removed"
          password="removed"
          url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@aphis.usda.gov:1521:rem"
          inactivity-timeout="120"
clean-available-connections-threshold="30"
max-connect-attempts="3"
          wait-timeout="120">
          <description>ACMS-Datasource-Oracle</description>
     </data-source>
</data-sources>
I don't know what to do at this point. I have tried to introduce a different database pool from within the application but that seems to only work in Tomcat and not OAS. Also I tried to introduce a thread to the application to constantly ping the database so the pool would remain active, but that also only works in Tomcat and not in OAS. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Any solution to this ...it seems we are having the same problem ...