Question

We are using DriverManagerDataSource from the Spring framework (version 2.5) to pool connections to Oracle. However, it seems that these connections don’t have any timeout defined – yesterday, after emergency database restart, we had a thread hanging on a socket read inside the database connection. How can I set the timeout, to say 10 mins, so that it raises an exception next time?

Answer 1

I ended up changing the bean in the Spring context in the following way:

<bean id="myDataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource" autowire="no">
    <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
    <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
    <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
    <property name="connectionProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="oracle.net.READ_TIMEOUT">60000</prop>
        </props>
    </property>
</bean>

I don’t know if it works yet.