Database connection validation

[Rakesh Vidyadharan <ra...@sptci.com>]

Hello,

I have a requirement for our web app to perform some validation on the database being available before building the display.  The database is configured as a JNDI resource, so I could fetch a connection from the pool and see if I get an exception.  I was wondering whether there is some similar JCR operation that would help me validate the connection.  I thought of creating a temporary node and trying to save, but that seems more heavy weight than I would wish.

How does JackRabbit handle inaccessible database?  Will it fail when attempting to fetch a new Session?

Thanks in advance for all recommendations.
Rakesh