MultiPools

A multipool is a metapool—that is, it is a pool of connection pools. (See Figure 7-3.) Multipools are defined under the Services JDBC tab in the administration console. They are essentially a named, ordered list of connection pools. The scope of a multipool is limited to the local machine.

Figure 7-3. Multipools

Note that while all the connections in a single connection pool must be to the same data source, connections within a multipool may be to more than one. One important implication that follows directly is high availability. When the connection to the primary data source is perceived to be broken, the multipool can automatically ...

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