The better way is to get a DataSource
object. Either by using JNDI to look one up that your app server container already configured for you:
Context context = new InitialContext();
DataSource dataSource = (DataSource) context.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/myDB");
… or by instantiating and configuring one from your database driver directly, such as com.mysql.cj.jdbc.MysqlDataSource
(see documentation):
MysqlDataSource dataSource = new MysqlDataSource();
dataSource.setUser("scott");
dataSource.setPassword("tiger");
dataSource.setServerName("myDBHost.example.org");
… and then obtain connections from it, same as above:
Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection();
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT ID FROM USERS");
…
rs.close();
stmt.close();
conn.close();
In modern Java, use try-with-resources syntax to automatically close JDBC resources (now AutoCloseable
).
try (
Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection();
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT ID FROM USERS");
) {
…
}
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