JDBC Multiple Connections

Question

What is the easiest way of implementing a multi connection server application?.
We're connecting to an oracle 8i db using jdbc and want the users logging in to have their own "session" in order to control the user's access to the tables and the capability to use the rollback functionality.
Today we only have one generic connection that all users are accessing.
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Answer 1

If the server application is setup as a Java Servlet, then Oracle userid and password
information can be put in "hidden" variables
within the HTML Form being serviced by the Servlet.
Each time the Servlet handles a HTML Form submission, it would reestablish a connection to the database by logging in utilizing the userid/password info contained in the Form's hidden input fields.
This approach requires that the Servlet
log on to the database, do the necessary database processing ,and then log off each time a Form is POSTed to the Servlet, which is a lot slower than maintaining persistent database connections for the servlet. It does have the advantage, however, of establishing a traditional
Oracle "session" for each user, thereby ensuring that the user can only perform those database functions that have been granted to that user by Oracle roles and user privledges.