Chapter 1 Introducing Jaguar CTS

Connection caching

Connection caching allows Jaguar components to share pools of preallocated connections to a remote database server, avoiding the overhead imposed when each instance of a component creates a separate connection. Components that support transactions must use a connection from a Jaguar connection cache to interact with remote databases.

For components coded in C, Jaguar supports Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC) and Client-Library™ connection caches. For Java components, Jaguar provides JDBC connection caches. Each component model provides an interface for connection pooling. See Chapter 28, "Using Connection Management" for more information.