Category "c3p0"

Hibernate - C3P0 JDBC connection pooling

I'm not a Java developer, but a systems administrator, so forgive me for any senseless statement or questions. I suspect the C3P0 connection pooling is not set

Initializing C3P0 connection pool takes 2 min

I can't wrap my head around why the initialization of a c3p0 connection pool takes 2 min in my Hibernate application. This is in my Hibernate.cfg.xml: <hib