is c3p0 obsolete?

Question

According to http://sourceforge.net/projects/c3p0/files/bin/ it seems that the last stable version of c3p0 was released in 2007.

Isn't it abandoned project?

We use it heavily and it works fine, but I am a little bit afraid that it will not get fixes and support, causing that new versions of hibernate, JDBC drivers, databases and finally transition to java7 will make it work worse.

Answer 1

i've been in grad school in an unrelated field since 2007, which has kicked my butt and rendered c3p0 maintenance slow at best. c3p0 is not formally abandoned, but until i'm out of this program, it defacto has been. (the update from ~1.5 yrs ago is a pretty big deal, and i've gotten no bad feedback on the changes, i advise using that. but it was a one-off, not the long sequence of release and feedback that i upgrade to a stable release.)

i do intend to bring c3p0 forward when i am done, which will hopefully be this summer. but i mostly feel terrible about the long lapse in maintenance, and understand apologetically that many users have felt compelled to seek alternatives.

Answer 2

c3p0 development has started up again, with a new release (c3p0-0.9.2-pre2).

Answer 3

In 2020 I would recommend HikariCP. It is very fast, stable and has excellent documentation.