Hi All,
Am fairly new to use hibernate, please help to answer my simple doubt, its more of a design oriented doubt.

I have configured the hibernate properties to have min of 5 connections and max of 30 connections in the connection pool initially and configured as minimum idle connections as 5 to have always minimum of 5 connections available to serve the requests.
In the application code am closing the connection which I have taken from the data source, we use spring to configure the data source and hibernate sessions. I am not closing the data source nor sessions but closing the connection objects in the code.
My doubt is even if i closed the connection will the hibernate takes care of creating connection objects even when there is no request comes in to match the configuration as min of 5 connections should be available at any time?
Do we really need to take care of closing the connection object in application by ourself?

Regards
Subash

What connection objects are you talking about?

Hibernate helps you (among other things) by hiding the JDBC connection details to you (you use the session).

If you are already using Spring, you could look at the HibernateTemplate class that helps you remove boilerplate code (like getting a session etc.).