Added some agenda items for 2015-04-17 dev call

[Cantor, Scott]

On 4/9/15, 11:25 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>> The replacement for c3p0 seems easy, we've already said DBCP. 
>
>Before we discuss it I'd be interested in how much work we think it will be
>to plumb DBCP into the <ApplicationManagedConnection/> stuff.  We may have
>deprecated that in favour of the BeanManagedConnection but we still have to
>support it through to 4.0.
>
>Indeed without that data point it seems a difficult conversation to have
>
>I'm hoping that someone will volunteer to do this.  I will have some time
>before Friday week but probably not enough to do this justice.

Well, I know DBCP well enough that it's basically a matter of a totally different set of attributes, and then some way of distinguishing which one to use.

All of that seems confusing and ultimately not worth the effort given that you still end up with a connection pool per connector, which sucks. No robust deployment is going to use ApplicationManaged, particularly now that using the other options works fine with the aacli tool.

-- Scott