"cbredesen" wrote : If you read my original posting, this scenario deals with pools that have (for whatever reason) not configured a valid connection checker or sql. It was not that clear to me ;( okay now I understand that you want to get rid of stale connections even if you have not configured check-valid-connection. Yes looks an good idea . View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4158716#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...