dbcp, initCtx.close()??

[Paul <pa...@msci.ca>]

Tomcat docs advise following code for openning a dbcp connection:

<%
// Obtain our environment naming context
Context initCtx = new InitialContext();
Context envCtx = (Context)initCtx.lookup("java:comp/env");

// Look up our data source
DataSource ds = (DataSource)envCtx.lookup("jdbc/eplResrc");
%>

However, the Tomcat docs do not say anything about closing initCtx.  Does this need to be explicitly closed in developer code?  Will not-closing-it create memory leaks?  The reason i ask is because i came across example of closing context in that Wrox book, "Professional Apache Tomcat", as follows:

initCtx.close();  // closed after conn is closed (see Wrox, p.327)

-paul lomack