Which is Best way to pool DB connections on Server no-J2EE???

I have a applicatio, which run on very different app servers (WebSpere, JRun and i-Planet)... the db conncetion problems existe whit server no-J2EE compliant, like as i-Planet.
On J2EE servers I cant use Server DataSource to pooled connection, and server make this work transparently and good.
But, if have to manually manage to pool connection, which is the best way?
Befor use Poolman package... by CodeStudio, but is not effective for me...
Now, are studying the Jackarta-Commons DBCP...
Which is the best ?... there is other solution for this problem ?.
thx !

App in I'm work, make exhaustive use of db connection,
only on startup, use a average of 130 connection
request on less 10 secconds.
All connection requested, when finish to use, there
are closed, supposeddly, the closed connction are
returned to pool, but this no happend it quickl, How do you know it doesn't happen quickly?
Normally a returned connection would just be inserted into a list with a possible state change. That would be very quick in java. It might check the state of the connection and that is going to take longer Another pool manager might do the same though.
then,
if pool is able to create emmergency connections (up
num max) always returned new connection, any one
else, if pool can't create emmergency connection
objects, app wait for free connection of pool... long
delay !Of course, but any pool is going to do that.

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    In fact, that matches local disk performance. The
    local serial ATA hard disks that are used in Power
    Mac G5 models are serial ATA 1.5Gb/s (gigaBITS per
    second) or 187.5MB/s at maximum bursts;I typically
    see performance in the 40MB/s to 50MB/s range.
    Just for fun, here are throughput speeds of several
    common connectors, in megabytes per second:
    Serial ATA "3.0": bursts up to 375MB/s, sustains
    about 75MB/s
    LVD SCSI 320: bursts up to 320MB/s, sustains about
    100MB/s
    Fibre Channel: bursts up to 200MB/s, sustains about
    60MB/s
    Serial ATA "1.5": bursts up to 187.5 MB/s, sustains
    about 50MB/s
    SCSI-3 LVD SCSI 160: bursts up to 160MB/s, sustains
    about 60MB/s
    Ultra ATA/133 (PATA): bursts up to 133MB/s, sustains
    about 50MB/s
    Gigabit Ethernet: bursts up to 125MB/s, sustains
    about 50MB/s
    FireWire 800: bursts up to 100MB/s, sustains about
    50MB/s
    ATA/66 (PATA): bursts up to 66MB/s, sustains about
    40MB/s
    USB 2.0: bursts up to 60MB/s, sustains about 30MB/s
    FireWire 400: bursts up to 50MB/s, sustains about
    20MB/s
    10/100 "Fast" Ethernet: bursts up to 12.5MB/s
    Judging by your request, I think the "no Xsan"
    scenario is the one you want.
    --Gerrit
    I would love to take XSan out of the picture and if that means that I can only use one of the servers at a time then fine I can live with that, but, I would rather have both active and working for me even if I have to split the services between the systems.

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