Each method I have in my bean uses JNDI to get a connection from the Datasource. The Connection is a global member in my Bean.

My question is : If I do the following in each method to set my global Connection con member, am I getting each time a new Connection object from the Data pool or am I using the same connection?

InitialContext ic = new InitialContext();
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup(DBNAME);
con = ds.getConnection();


I am asking this to better design my code but also because I am using a transation in one bean which calls method in two other beans and I want to know if there are multiple connections for the transaction to handle.

Any info on this would be appreciated

thanks

David