Closing JDBC Connections in Pool
Connection conn = getConnection(...);
Statement  stmt = conn.conn.createStatement (ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_INSENSITIVE,
                                                ResultSet.CONCUR_READ_ONLY);
ResultSet  rset = stmt.executeQuery (sqlQuery);

// do stuff with rset

rset.close(); stmt.close(); conn.close();

synchronized public Connection getConnection (boolean pooledConnection)
                                                        throws SQLException {
        if (pooledConnection) {
                if (ds == null) {
                        try {
                                Context envCtx = (Context)
                                        new InitialContext().lookup("java:comp/env");
                                ds = (DataSource) envCtx.lookup("jdbc/NamedInTomcat");
                                return ds.getConnection();
                        } catch (NamingException e) {
                                e.printStackTrace();
                }}
                return (ds == null) ? getConnection (false) : ds.getConnection();
        }
        return DriverManager.getConnection(
                "jdbc:mysql://"+ipaddy+":"+dbPort +"/" + dbName, uName, pWord);
}

synchronized public Connection getTomcatConnection () {...}
public Connection getCustomConnection() {...}

public void close() throws SQLException {
  pool.returnConnection(this);
}