ComboPooledDataSource cpds = new ComboPooledDataSource();
cpds.setDriverClass( "org.postgresql.Driver" ); //loads the jdbc driver
cpds.setJdbcUrl( "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/testdb" );
cpds.setUser("swaldman");
cpds.setPassword("test-password");

// the settings below are optional -- c3p0 can work with defaults
cpds.setMinPoolSize(5);
cpds.setAcquireIncrement(5);
cpds.setMaxPoolSize(20);

// The DataSource cpds is now a fully configured and usable pooled DataSource

DataSource ds = (DataSource) new InitialContext().lookup("jdbc/myDS");

BasicDataSource ds = new BasicDataSource();
 ds.setDriverClassName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver")
 ds.setUsername("scott");
 ds.setPassword("tiger");
 ds.setUrl(connectURI);
 ...
 Connection conn = ds.getConnection();

try {
   context = new InitialContext();
   jdbcURL = (DataSource) context.lookup("jdbc/CachedDS");
   System.out.println("Obtained Cached Data Source ");
}
catch(NamingException e)
{
    System.err.println("Error looking up Data Source from Factory: "+e.getMessage());
}

public class StringPoolTest {
    public static void main(String[] args) { // Integer.valueOf(), String.equals()
        String eol = System.getProperty("line.separator"); //java7 System.lineSeparator();

        String s1 = "Yash".intern();
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s1, s1.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s1));
        String s2 = "Yas"+"h".intern();
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s2, s2.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s2));
        String s3 = "Yas".intern()+"h".intern();
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s3, s3.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s3));
        String s4 = "Yas"+"h";
        System.out.format("Val:%s Hash:%s SYS:%s "+eol, s4, s4.hashCode(), System.identityHashCode(s4));
    }
}

public class ConnectionPool {
    static final BasicDataSource ds_dbcp2 = new BasicDataSource();
    static final ComboPooledDataSource ds_c3p0 = new ComboPooledDataSource();
    static final DataSource ds_JDBC = new DataSource();

    static Properties prop = new Properties();
    static {
        try {
            prop.load(ConnectionPool.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("connectionpool.properties"));

            ds_dbcp2.setDriverClassName( prop.getProperty("DriverClass") );
            ds_dbcp2.setUrl( prop.getProperty("URL") );
            ds_dbcp2.setUsername( prop.getProperty("UserName") );
            ds_dbcp2.setPassword( prop.getProperty("Password") );
            ds_dbcp2.setInitialSize( 5 );

            ds_c3p0.setDriverClass( prop.getProperty("DriverClass") );
            ds_c3p0.setJdbcUrl( prop.getProperty("URL") );
            ds_c3p0.setUser( prop.getProperty("UserName") );
            ds_c3p0.setPassword( prop.getProperty("Password") );
            ds_c3p0.setMinPoolSize(5);
            ds_c3p0.setAcquireIncrement(5);
            ds_c3p0.setMaxPoolSize(20);

            PoolProperties pool = new PoolProperties();
            pool.setUrl( prop.getProperty("URL") );
            pool.setDriverClassName( prop.getProperty("DriverClass") );
            pool.setUsername( prop.getProperty("UserName") );
            pool.setPassword( prop.getProperty("Password") );
            pool.setValidationQuery("SELECT 1");// SELECT 1(mysql) select 1 from dual(oracle)

            pool.setInitialSize(5);
            pool.setMaxActive(3);
            ds_JDBC.setPoolProperties( pool );
        } catch (IOException e) {   e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (PropertyVetoException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
    }

    public static Connection getDBCP2Connection() throws SQLException {
        return ds_dbcp2.getConnection();
    }

    public static Connection getc3p0Connection() throws SQLException {
        return ds_c3p0.getConnection();
    }

    public static Connection getJDBCConnection() throws SQLException {
        return ds_JDBC.getConnection();
    }
}
public static boolean exists(String UserName, String Password ) throws SQLException {
    boolean exist = false;
    String SQL_EXIST = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username=? AND password=?";
    try ( Connection connection = ConnectionPool.getDBCP2Connection();
          PreparedStatement pstmt = connection.prepareStatement(SQL_EXIST); ) {
        pstmt.setString(1, UserName );
        pstmt.setString(2, Password );

        try (ResultSet resultSet = pstmt.executeQuery()) {
            exist = resultSet.next(); // Note that you should not return a ResultSet here.
        }
    }
    System.out.println("User : "+exist);
    return exist;
}

URL         : jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDBName
DriverClass : com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
UserName    : root
Password    :

===== ===== context.xml ===== =====
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- The contents of this file will be loaded for a web application -->
<Context>
    <Resource name="jdbc/MyAppDB" auth="Container"
        factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory"
        type="javax.sql.DataSource"

        initialSize="5" minIdle="5" maxActive="15" maxIdle="10"

        testWhileIdle="true"
            timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis="30000"

        testOnBorrow="true"
            validationQuery="SELECT 1"
            validationInterval="30000"


        driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
        url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDBName"
        username="yash" password="777"
    />
</Context>

===== ===== web.xml ===== =====
<resource-ref>
    <description>DB Connection</description>
    <res-ref-name>jdbc/MyAppDB</res-ref-name>
    <res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
    <res-auth>Container</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
===== ===== DBOperations ===== =====
servlet «   init() {}
Normal call used by sevlet  « static {}

static DataSource ds;
static {
    try {
        Context ctx=new InitialContext();
        Context envContext = (Context)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env");
        ds  =   (DataSource) envContext.lookup("jdbc/MyAppDB");
    } catch (NamingException e) {   e.printStackTrace();    }
}