How does inactive connection timeout attribute in weblogic works ?

Question

Lets say If there is a connection leakage in my application running on weblogic server 10.3.4 and I want to regain the unclosed connection.
After going through some documentation I found out that setting inactive connection timeout to a positive value can fix this issue.
With setting the above attribute will the weblogic server close any connection object which is inactive for specified number of seconds or it acts on only
those connection objects which has lost all the references to it ?
demonstrating the query by an example ,
Lets say I have two connection objects con1 & con2 taken from a defined datasource in the weblogic.
the inactive timeout has been set to 10 seconds.
In a given thread lets say con1 does some db operation and then after being done, con2 is used for another db operation for greater than 10 seconds.
Will the object con1 be still available for db operation or we need to take a fresh connection from the pool ?
Thanks,
Tarique
Edited by: user779368 on 30-May-2011 06:29

Answer 1

Any connection that has been reserved by an application, and not used for longer than
the inactive timeout limit, will be taken back by the pool. All it's sub-objects will be closed etc.
In your case, you would lose con1 while con2 was being used. Ideally, you would get
any/either of those connections at the instant you really need it. Then, ideally use it
till you can close it. But if you are doing transactions or a job that need connections,
but can't avoid having them idle for X seconds, then set your inactive timeout larger than X.