US Patent 8244865 Method and apparatus for autonomic management of connection pools

A method and apparatus for autonomic management of a connection pool. One embodiment comprises initializing a connection pool with a set of initial settings, wherein the set of initial settings include a collection interval and a collection duration; collecting autonomic configuration data for the collection duration, the autonomic configuration data including a maximum number of connections observed during the collection interval; determining an set of optimal settings using the autonomic configuration data; and modifying the connection pool according to the set of optimal settings.