<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- the proxool configuration can be embedded within your own application's. Anything outside the "proxool" tag is ignored. --> <something-else-entirely> <proxool> <alias>DBPool</alias> <driver-url>jdbc:MySQL://localhost:3306/WebShop</driver-url> <driver-class>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</driver-class> <driver-properties> <property name="user" value="ycoe"/> <property name="passWord" value="123456"/> </driver-properties> <maximum-connection-count>10</maximum-connection-count> <house-keeping-test-sql>select CURRENT_DATE</house-keeping-test-sql> </proxool> </something-else-entirely>