Java – How to preinitialize DBCP connection pool on startup

apache-commons-dbcpconnection-poolingdatabase connectionjavaspring-jdbc

The setup of my project is –

Spring JDBC for persistence
Apache DBCP 1.4 for connection pooling
Mysql 5 on Linux

Here is the log of my application that captures the interactions with the database.

2013-01-29 15:52:21,549 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 org.springframework.jdbc.core.JdbcTemplate - Executing SQL query [SELECT id from emp]
2013-01-29 15:52:21,558 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils - Fetching JDBC Connection from DataSource
2013-01-29 15:52:31,878  INFO http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - 1. Connection opened  org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:38)
2013-01-29 15:52:31,878 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - open connections:  1 (1)
2013-01-29 15:52:31,895  INFO http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - 1. Connection closed  org.apache.commons.dbcp.DelegatingConnection.close(DelegatingConnection.java:247)
2013-01-29 15:52:31,895 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - open connections:  none
2013-01-29 15:52:41,950  INFO http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - 2. Connection opened  org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:38)
2013-01-29 15:52:41,950 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - open connections:  2 (1)
2013-01-29 15:52:52,001  INFO http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - 3. Connection opened  org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:38)
2013-01-29 15:52:52,002 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - open connections:  2 3 (2)
2013-01-29 15:53:02,058  INFO http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - 4. Connection opened  org.apache.commons.dbcp.DriverConnectionFactory.createConnection(DriverConnectionFactory.java:38)
2013-01-29 15:53:02,058 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 jdbc.connection - open connections:  2 3 4 (3)
2013-01-29 15:53:03,403 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 org.springframework.jdbc.core.BeanPropertyRowMapper - Mapping column 'id' to property 'id' of type int
2013-01-29 15:53:04,494 DEBUG http-bio-8080-exec-3 org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceUtils - Returning JDBC Connection to DataSource

Two things are clear from the log –

The connection pool only starts creating connections when the first request to execute a query is received.
A pool of 4 connections takes nearly 30 seconds to initialize.

My questions are –

How should one configure DBCP to initialize on startup automatically?
Should it really take that long to create connections?

Note: Please don't suggest switching to C3P0 or Tomcat connection pool. I'm aware of those solutions. I'm more interested in understanding the problem at hand than just a quick fix.
Besides I'm sure something so basic should be possible with DBCP as well.

Contents of dbcontext –

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClassName" value="${db.driver}" />
    <property name="url" value="${db.jdbc.url}" />
    <property name="username" value="${db.user}" />
    <property name="password" value="${db.password}" />
    <property name="maxActive" value="20" />
    <property name="initialSize" value="4" />
    <property name="testOnBorrow" value="true" />
    <property name="validationQuery" value="SELECT 1" />
</bean>

Best Answer

The initialSize doesn't take effect until you first request a connection. From the java docs to BasicDataSource#setInitialSize

Sets the initial size of the connection pool.

Note: this method currently has no effect once the pool has been initialized. The pool is initialized the first time one of the following methods is invoked: getConnection, setLogwriter, setLoginTimeout, getLoginTimeout, getLogWriter.

Try adding init-method="getLoginTimeout" to your bean to confirm this.

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Java – How to read / convert an InputStream into a String in Java

Summarize other answers I found 11 main ways to do this (see below). And I wrote some performance tests (see results below):

Ways to convert an InputStream to a String:

Using IOUtils.toString (Apache Utils)

 String result = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

Using CharStreams (Guava)

 String result = CharStreams.toString(new InputStreamReader(
       inputStream, Charsets.UTF_8));

Using Scanner (JDK)

 Scanner s = new Scanner(inputStream).useDelimiter("\\A");
 String result = s.hasNext() ? s.next() : "";

Using Stream API (Java 8). Warning: This solution converts different line breaks (like \r\n) to \n.

 String result = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream))
   .lines().collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));

Using parallel Stream API (Java 8). Warning: This solution converts different line breaks (like \r\n) to \n.

 String result = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream))
    .lines().parallel().collect(Collectors.joining("\n"));

Using InputStreamReader and StringBuilder (JDK)

 int bufferSize = 1024;
 char[] buffer = new char[bufferSize];
 StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();
 Reader in = new InputStreamReader(stream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
 for (int numRead; (numRead = in.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0; ) {
     out.append(buffer, 0, numRead);
 }
 return out.toString();

Using StringWriter and IOUtils.copy (Apache Commons)

 StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
 IOUtils.copy(inputStream, writer, "UTF-8");
 return writer.toString();

Using ByteArrayOutputStream and inputStream.read (JDK)

 ByteArrayOutputStream result = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
 byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
 for (int length; (length = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1; ) {
     result.write(buffer, 0, length);
 }
 // StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name() > JDK 7
 return result.toString("UTF-8");

Using BufferedReader (JDK). Warning: This solution converts different line breaks (like \n\r) to line.separator system property (for example, in Windows to "\r\n").

 String newLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
 BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
         new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
 StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
 for (String line; (line = reader.readLine()) != null; ) {
     if (result.length() > 0) {
         result.append(newLine);
     }
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Using BufferedInputStream and ByteArrayOutputStream (JDK)

BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);
ByteArrayOutputStream buf = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
for (int result = bis.read(); result != -1; result = bis.read()) {
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Using inputStream.read() and StringBuilder (JDK). Warning: This solution has problems with Unicode, for example with Russian text (works correctly only with non-Unicode text)
```
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int ch; (ch = inputStream.read()) != -1; ) {
    sb.append((char) ch);
}
return sb.toString();
```

Warning:

Solutions 4, 5 and 9 convert different line breaks to one.
Solution 11 can't work correctly with Unicode text

Performance tests

Performance tests for small String (length = 175), url in github (mode = Average Time, system = Linux, score 1,343 is the best):

              Benchmark                         Mode  Cnt   Score   Error  Units
 8. ByteArrayOutputStream and read (JDK)        avgt   10   1,343 ± 0,028  us/op
 6. InputStreamReader and StringBuilder (JDK)   avgt   10   6,980 ± 0,404  us/op
10. BufferedInputStream, ByteArrayOutputStream  avgt   10   7,437 ± 0,735  us/op
11. InputStream.read() and StringBuilder (JDK)  avgt   10   8,977 ± 0,328  us/op
 7. StringWriter and IOUtils.copy (Apache)      avgt   10  10,613 ± 0,599  us/op
 1. IOUtils.toString (Apache Utils)             avgt   10  10,605 ± 0,527  us/op
 3. Scanner (JDK)                               avgt   10  12,083 ± 0,293  us/op
 2. CharStreams (guava)                         avgt   10  12,999 ± 0,514  us/op
 4. Stream Api (Java 8)                         avgt   10  15,811 ± 0,605  us/op
 9. BufferedReader (JDK)                        avgt   10  16,038 ± 0,711  us/op
 5. parallel Stream Api (Java 8)                avgt   10  21,544 ± 0,583  us/op

Performance tests for big String (length = 50100), url in github (mode = Average Time, system = Linux, score 200,715 is the best):

               Benchmark                        Mode  Cnt   Score        Error  Units
 8. ByteArrayOutputStream and read (JDK)        avgt   10   200,715 ±   18,103  us/op
 1. IOUtils.toString (Apache Utils)             avgt   10   300,019 ±    8,751  us/op
 6. InputStreamReader and StringBuilder (JDK)   avgt   10   347,616 ±  130,348  us/op
 7. StringWriter and IOUtils.copy (Apache)      avgt   10   352,791 ±  105,337  us/op
 2. CharStreams (guava)                         avgt   10   420,137 ±   59,877  us/op
 9. BufferedReader (JDK)                        avgt   10   632,028 ±   17,002  us/op
 5. parallel Stream Api (Java 8)                avgt   10   662,999 ±   46,199  us/op
 4. Stream Api (Java 8)                         avgt   10   701,269 ±   82,296  us/op
10. BufferedInputStream, ByteArrayOutputStream  avgt   10   740,837 ±    5,613  us/op
 3. Scanner (JDK)                               avgt   10   751,417 ±   62,026  us/op
11. InputStream.read() and StringBuilder (JDK)  avgt   10  2919,350 ± 1101,942  us/op

Graphs (performance tests depending on Input Stream length in Windows 7 system)

Performance test (Average Time) depending on Input Stream length in Windows 7 system:

 length  182    546     1092    3276    9828    29484   58968

 test8  0.38    0.938   1.868   4.448   13.412  36.459  72.708
 test4  2.362   3.609   5.573   12.769  40.74   81.415  159.864
 test5  3.881   5.075   6.904   14.123  50.258  129.937 166.162
 test9  2.237   3.493   5.422   11.977  45.98   89.336  177.39
 test6  1.261   2.12    4.38    10.698  31.821  86.106  186.636
 test7  1.601   2.391   3.646   8.367   38.196  110.221 211.016
 test1  1.529   2.381   3.527   8.411   40.551  105.16  212.573
 test3  3.035   3.934   8.606   20.858  61.571  118.744 235.428
 test2  3.136   6.238   10.508  33.48   43.532  118.044 239.481
 test10 1.593   4.736   7.527   20.557  59.856  162.907 323.147
 test11 3.913   11.506  23.26   68.644  207.591 600.444 1211.545

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