Credentialling for Connection Pools

I've been looking at different documents on dev2dev, but being new to the
security I'm not sure what I'm looking at. That's at least simple humble
way to say it.
Is it possible to configure WebLogic (8.1) server to use external
credentials for a connection pool?
Thanks,
Michael

probably not your problem, but groupnames and usernames should
be unique in weblogic, so if you happen to have a user with the
same name as the group you are trying to use, it would confuse
the server.
but, like I said, probably not your problem.
-Don
"Ken Hu" <[email protected]> wrote:
Dieter,
I got the same problem as yours when I am working with
WLS 5.1:
I have a connection pool set up in the weblogic.properties
file and a Oracle
RDBMSRealm. And there is an acl entry in the database
indicating that a
certain group has 'reserve' right to the connection pool.
Then when one user which in fact belongs to that group
try to use the
connection pool, he will get SecurityException saying
that he doesn't has a
reserve right. But when I change group name of the acl
entry to that user,
he is able to use the connection pool. All seems that
I can't use a group as
principal in the Connection Pool acl settings.
But when I used WLS6.0, the problem disappeared. Does
anybody have any idea?
Thanks,
Ken
Tom Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Dieter,
I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do.a group is a
collection of users and does not have a password. Canyou explain what
you are trying to accomplish?
Thanks.
Dieter Arnold wrote:
It seems that it is not possible to use a group as
principal for
a connection pool in the
weblogic.properties file. This results in a SecurityExceptionwhen
a user which is a--
Tom Mitchell
[email protected]
Very Current Stoneham, MA Weather
http://www.tom.org

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probably not your problem, but groupnames and usernames should
be unique in weblogic, so if you happen to have a user with the
same name as the group you are trying to use, it would confuse
the server.
but, like I said, probably not your problem.
-Don
"Ken Hu" <[email protected]> wrote:
Dieter,
I got the same problem as yours when I am working with
WLS 5.1:
I have a connection pool set up in the weblogic.properties
file and a Oracle
RDBMSRealm. And there is an acl entry in the database
indicating that a
certain group has 'reserve' right to the connection pool.
Then when one user which in fact belongs to that group
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connection pool, he will get SecurityException saying
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But when I used WLS6.0, the problem disappeared. Does
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Tom Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Dieter,
I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do.a group is a
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Dieter Arnold wrote:
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Tom Mitchell
[email protected]
Very Current Stoneham, MA Weather
http://www.tom.org

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* <P>
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* from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
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>
>
Where as in second tutorial - http://www.roseindia.net/answers/viewanswers/2838.html
Never EVER use roseindia. It is terrible shit.
[http://balusc.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-is-it-with-roseindia.html]
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Liu
I may not answer all ur questions.But would like to share my experiences....
3) U can set the username and password dynamically also...we use it in orion..so u should be able to use it in oc4j..as a matter of fact, we can set all the data-sources parameters dynamically(programmatically).
1) I may not be correct 100 percent with this :but for pooling only ejb-location is used and for non pooling location is used.
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seems there is lot being raised on these topics..
yugandhar

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-Matt

You should release() bad connections to the pool so the pool can replace them.
Validating connections is generally not worth it: between validation & use there could be a failure, so your executions need to handle errors anyway. Why reduce scalability and performance by doing an extra "round trip" for validation? Also you can use FAN which can proactively clean up idle sessions in the session pool that are affected by the DB instance disappearing (due to network glitches etc).
The client-side pool is handled by Oracle session pooling, so the algorithms are opaque.

Setting up a connection pool to ms sql database

Hi
I am trying to create a connection pool to talk to an MSSQL database, and could not manage to ping the DB (Operation 'pingConnectionPool' failed in 'resources' Config Mbean.) .
What set of properties need to be included for connection pool to an MS SQL DB?
your help is very much appreciated,
Yhank you
orms2004

package coreservlets;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
/** A class for preallocating, recycling, and managing
* JDBC connections.
* <P>
* Taken from Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages
* from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
* http://www.coreservlets.com/.
* © 2000 Marty Hall; may be freely used or adapted.
public class ConnectionPool implements Runnable {
private String driver, url, username, password;
private int maxConnections;
private boolean waitIfBusy;
private Vector availableConnections, busyConnections;
private boolean connectionPending = false;
public ConnectionPool(String driver, String url,
                        String username, String password,
                        int initialConnections,
                        int maxConnections,
                        boolean waitIfBusy)
      throws SQLException {
    this.driver = driver;
    this.url = url;
    this.username = username;
    this.password = password;
    this.maxConnections = maxConnections;
    this.waitIfBusy = waitIfBusy;
    if (initialConnections > maxConnections) {
      initialConnections = maxConnections;
    availableConnections = new Vector(initialConnections);
    busyConnections = new Vector();
    for(int i=0; i<initialConnections; i++) {
      availableConnections.addElement(makeNewConnection());
public synchronized Connection getConnection()
      throws SQLException {
    if (!availableConnections.isEmpty()) {
      Connection existingConnection =
        (Connection)availableConnections.lastElement();
      int lastIndex = availableConnections.size() - 1;
      availableConnections.removeElementAt(lastIndex);
      // If connection on available list is closed (e.g.,
      // it timed out), then remove it from available list
      // and repeat the process of obtaining a connection.
      // Also wake up threads that were waiting for a
      // connection because maxConnection limit was reached.
      if (existingConnection.isClosed()) {
        notifyAll(); // Freed up a spot for anybody waiting
        return(getConnection());
      } else {
        busyConnections.addElement(existingConnection);
        return(existingConnection);
    } else {
      // Three possible cases:
      // 1) You haven't reached maxConnections limit. So
      //    establish one in the background if there isn't
      //    already one pending, then wait for
      //    the next available connection (whether or not
      //    it was the newly established one).
      // 2) You reached maxConnections limit and waitIfBusy
      //    flag is false. Throw SQLException in such a case.
      // 3) You reached maxConnections limit and waitIfBusy
      //    flag is true. Then do the same thing as in second
      //    part of step 1: wait for next available connection.
      if ((totalConnections() < maxConnections) &&
          !connectionPending) {
        makeBackgroundConnection();
      } else if (!waitIfBusy) {
        throw new SQLException("Connection limit reached");
      // Wait for either a new connection to be established
      // (if you called makeBackgroundConnection) or for
      // an existing connection to be freed up.
      try {
        wait();
      } catch(InterruptedException ie) {}
      // Someone freed up a connection, so try again.
      return(getConnection());
// You can't just make a new connection in the foreground
// when none are available, since this can take several
// seconds with a slow network connection. Instead,
// start a thread that establishes a new connection,
// then wait. You get woken up either when the new connection
// is established or if someone finishes with an existing
// connection.
private void makeBackgroundConnection() {
    connectionPending = true;
    try {
      Thread connectThread = new Thread(this);
      connectThread.start();
    } catch(OutOfMemoryError oome) {
      // Give up on new connection
public void run() {
    try {
      Connection connection = makeNewConnection();
      synchronized(this) {
        availableConnections.addElement(connection);
        connectionPending = false;
        notifyAll();
    } catch(Exception e) { // SQLException or OutOfMemory
      // Give up on new connection and wait for existing one
      // to free up.
// This explicitly makes a new connection. Called in
// the foreground when initializing the ConnectionPool,
// and called in the background when running.
private Connection makeNewConnection()
      throws SQLException {
    try {
      // Load database driver if not already loaded
      Class.forName(driver);
      // Establish network connection to database
      Connection connection =
        DriverManager.getConnection(url, username, password);
      return(connection);
    } catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
      // Simplify try/catch blocks of people using this by
      // throwing only one exception type.
      throw new SQLException("Can't find class for driver: " +
                             driver);
public synchronized void free(Connection connection) {
    busyConnections.removeElement(connection);
    availableConnections.addElement(connection);
    // Wake up threads that are waiting for a connection
    notifyAll();
public synchronized int totalConnections() {
    return(availableConnections.size() +
           busyConnections.size());
/** Close all the connections. Use with caution:
   * be sure no connections are in use before
   * calling. Note that you are not <I>required</I> to
   * call this when done with a ConnectionPool, since
   * connections are guaranteed to be closed when
   * garbage collected. But this method gives more control
   * regarding when the connections are closed.
public synchronized void closeAllConnections() {
    closeConnections(availableConnections);
    availableConnections = new Vector();
    closeConnections(busyConnections);
    busyConnections = new Vector();
private void closeConnections(Vector connections) {
    try {
      for(int i=0; i<connections.size(); i++) {
        Connection connection =
          (Connection)connections.elementAt(i);
        if (!connection.isClosed()) {
          connection.close();
    } catch(SQLException sqle) {
      // Ignore errors; garbage collect anyhow
public synchronized String toString() {
    String info =
      "ConnectionPool(" + url + "," + username + ")" +
      ", available=" + availableConnections.size() +
      ", busy=" + busyConnections.size() +
      ", max=" + maxConnections;
    return(info);
}taken from:
http://archive.coreservlets.com/Chapter18.html

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