I'm developing a standalone application using Hibernate (3.0) with c3p0 (0.9.1) as pool and local mysql as database.
I want to inform the user if database is not running, but all I get is an apparently infinite loop with this exception:

"An exception occurred while acquiring a poolable resource. Will retry."

and no exception are thrown to my application.

How can I catch this kind of exception?!

Thanks

I've got the same problem.

In fact, you cannot catch the exception because c3p0 already catch it and then retry, again and again...

You can just not use c3p0, then the hibernate built-in connection pool will throw an exception.

But it's not recommended to use hibernate built-in connection pool in prod, so did-you find another way to correct the problem?