User development, A new message was posted in the thread "How to Read my oracle*ds.xml": http://community.jboss.org/message/524507#524507 Author : Peter Johnson Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/peterj Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, you do have to close a connection before it can be considered as being idle. I know that at one time the app server would close the connection for you if your servlet did not close it (saw lots of forums posts on this); not sure if that is still the case. -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/524507#524507