Play application dies in idle state, restart on new request?

Question

I am using HikariCp, Hibernate with my playframework application in java. After few mins of idle state, it seems play application dies, and when it gets new request it starts again. Sometime I have also seen Db persistence error with message that sessionfactory not available, which I believe is side-effect of this issue. Why application dies in idle state, and can I some how configure it to not do so ?

I get following logs, after every new requests in few mins of idle time -

[info] application - Application shutdown...
[info] application - Stopping HikariCP connection pool...
[info] application - Starting HikariCP connection pool...

Persistence.xml :-

<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
             version="2.0">

    <persistence-unit name="defaultPersistenceUnit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
        <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
        <properties>
            <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect"/> 
            <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
            <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>
            <property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments" value="true"/>
            <property name="hibernate.logSql" value="true"/>            
            <property name="hibernate.connection.provider_class" value="com.zaxxer.hikari.hibernate.HikariConnectionProvider"/>
            <property name="hibernate.hikari.dataSourceClassName" value="com.impossibl.postgres.jdbc.PGDataSource"/>
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>

</persistence>

Application.conf:-

# JPA configuration
# ~~~~~
# You can declare as many Ebean servers as you want.
# By convention, the default server is named `default`
jpa.default=defaultPersistenceUnit

# Assets configuration
# ~~~~~
"assets.cache./public/stylesheets/bootstrap.min.css"="max-age=360000"

# Logger
# ~~~~~
# You can also configure logback (http://logback.qos.ch/), by providing a logger.xml file in the conf directory .

# Root logger:
logger=ERROR

# Logger used by the framework:
logger.play=INFO

# Logger provided to your application:
logger.application=DEBUG

Thanks !

Answer 1

Your database connection provider when is iddle don´t do anything for re-connect, you will need indicate to your provider what to do in this case, for example:

    <persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence"
                         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
                         xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
                         version="2.0">

                <persistence-unit name="defaultPersistenceUnit" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL">
                    <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
                    <properties>
                        <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect"/> 
                        <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/>
                        <property name="hibernate.format_sql" value="true"/>
                        <property name="hibernate.use_sql_comments" value="true"/>
                        <property name="hibernate.logSql" value="true"/>            
                        <property name="hibernate.connection.provider_class" value="com.zaxxer.hikari.hibernate.HikariConnectionProvider"/>
                        <property name="hibernate.hikari.dataSourceClassName" value="com.impossibl.postgres.jdbc.PGDataSource"


<property name="hibernate.hikari.timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="30000" />
        <property name="hibernate.hikari.minEvictableIdleTimeMillis="60000"/>
        <property name="hibernate.hikari.removeAbandonedOnBorrow="true" />    <property name="hibernate.hikari.removeAbandonedOnMaintenance="true" />
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.maxActive="30" />
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.maxIdle="10" />
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.maxWait="10000" />
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.initialSize="5" />
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.validationQuery= "SELECT 1" /> 
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.validationInterval="30000" />
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.removeAbandoned="true" /> 
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.removeAbandonedTimeout="60" /> 
    <property name="hibernate.hikari.logAbandoned="true"/>


                    </properties>
                </persistence-unit>

            </persistence>

check this link https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/Bad-Behavior:-Handling-Database-Down