closing resource connections

[Florian Weimer]

* Victor Cheung:

> is it recommended that we explicitly close all resource connections?

Yes.

> for example, database connections, web service connections, after we
> use them?  (and even if we are using frameworks such as
> Spring/iBatis)

I don't know what special support J2EE has in this area.  From what
I've seen, it relies heavily on object pooling, which means that
closing a resource likely returns it to the pool only (from where it
can be reused).