# Elasticsearch and connection pool
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-connection-pool/3259
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 26, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-connection-pool/3259 "2010-08-26T02:56:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@1112](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/1112)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-connection-pool/3259/1 "2010-08-26T02:56:27Z")
now,i'm use elasticsearch with java api, but i'm use common-pool as the
connections pool, can't no way to check the connection was lost.
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2010, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-connection-pool/3259/2 "2010-08-26T08:38:50Z")
Why do you use a connection pooling with it? You should create either a
single transport client or node client, it is already thread safe and
automatically reconnects / discovers the cluster.
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 5:56 AM, 曹江华 [tujiao.com@gmail.com](mailto:tujiao.com@gmail.com) wrote:
> now,i'm use elasticsearch with java api, but i'm use common-pool as the
> connections pool, can't no way to check the connection was lost.
>
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> [http://www.caojianghua.com](http://www.caojianghua.com)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-and-connection-pool/3259/3 "2017-07-06T04:20:19Z")