## Setting Up Connection Pools

A JDBC connection pool is a group of reusable connections for a particular database. Because creating each new physical connection is time consuming, the server maintains a pool of available connections to increase performance. When an application requests a connection, it obtains one from the pool. When an application closes a connection, the connection is returned to the pool.

This section covers the following JDBC connection pool topics:

- To create a JDBC connection pool

- To edit a JDBC connection pool

- To verify connection pool settings

- To delete a JDBC connection pool