Default Schema in connection URL

Question

I'd like to set default database schema in Connection URL
jdbc:oracle:thin:@<server>:<port1521>:<sid>
I need to query database without schema prefix
*select monkey_name from animals.monkey*
ie. When I run
select monkey_name from monkey
it will use animals schema by default.
Anyone with solution?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
aftre reading the response of tarpaw and castorp I build a simple test case that demonstrates the DBCP feature:
package org.jpadbf.jdbc;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
import org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource;
public class TestDBCPConnection {
     private static final String THIN_DRIVER="jdbc:oracle:thin:@";
     private static String databaseUrl="localhost:1521:ORCL";
     private static String username="test1";
     private static String password="test1";     
create table TEST_INSERT(ID NUMBER not null, DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(100));
grant select on test_insert to test1;
     * @param args
     * @throws SQLException
     public static void main(String[] args) throws SQLException {
          DataSource dataSource = getDBCPDataSource(databaseUrl, username, password,1,20);
          Connection conn=dataSource.getConnection();
          try {
               testQuery(conn);
          } finally {
               conn.close();
     public static void testQuery(Connection conn) throws SQLException {
          Statement statement =conn.createStatement();
          try {
               ResultSet resultSet=statement.executeQuery("select 1 from test_insert");
               try {
                    if (resultSet.next()) {
                         if (resultSet.getInt(1)!=1) {
                              throw new RuntimeException ("Invalid query result");
               } finally {
                    resultSet.close();
          } finally {
               statement.close();
     public static DataSource getDBCPDataSource(String jdbcUrl, String username, String password, int minConncetions, int maxConnections) throws SQLException {
          BasicDataSource dataSource= new BasicDataSource();
          dataSource.setDriverClassName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
          dataSource.setUrl(THIN_DRIVER + jdbcUrl);
          dataSource.setUsername(username);
          dataSource.setPassword(password);
          dataSource.setInitialSize(minConncetions);
          dataSource.setMaxActive(maxConnections);
          dataSource.setMaxWait(1000);
          List<String> sqls=new ArrayList<String>();
          sqls.add("ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA = TEST");
          dataSource.setConnectionInitSqls(sqls);
          return dataSource;
And it seems work nicely.
the initSQLS property is added in version 1.3 (On my pc, before running this test case I had version 1.2).
Runnign the test case showed that I give you a wrong sql the correct is:
ALTER SESSION SET CURRENT_SCHEMA = ANIMALS
note the _ before CURRENT and SCHEMA
ciao,
Giovanni