From: Jagadish Prasath Ramu <Jagadish.Ramu_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:12:36 +0530

On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 16:40 +0330, Legolas wood wrote:
> Hi
> Thank you for reading my post
> Can you explain what are differences between glassfish datasource and
> Geronimo one?
> Glassfish datasource asks for "datasource class name" and "resource type"
> but geronimo just ask for JDBC driver class name?
Driver classes are typically used in 2 tier environment (standalone
client)

datasource will be used in managed (pooled/container) environment.
Also, distributed transaction support can be achieved using DataSource.

Please refer :
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=213369&#213369

for information on datasources.




>
> Geronimo one is simpler to use unless there are some performance reason
> behind how glassfish manages and create connection pools.
Yes, pooling will give performance improvements.

Thanks,
-Jagadish
>
> thanks
>
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