Hibernate, c3p0, and Mysql, spring?

A singleton Connection object is a bad idea (at least it is in any concurrent, multi-client application). It is certainly inconsistent with a Connection pool, the philosophy of which is that Connections should be acquired from the pool when they are needed and returned to the pool by calling close() as soon as a unit of work is done.

That exception means Database isn't reachable.

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