A data source connection is a physical connection definition that provides runtime connection to enterprise information systems (EIS), that in turn enables data to be mobilized by Unwired Server to client device via synchronization or messaging. Before you create publications or subscriptions, or deploy packages, you must first define database connections.
For Unwired Server to recognize a EIS data source, you must define a connection to that data repository. The connections are defined in Sybase Control Center with the Unwired Platform perspective, and are known as server-to-server connections because they are opened by Unwired Server.
In Unwired Platform you create a connection template from which you can replicate connections. Connection pools allows Unwired Servers to share pools of pre-allocate connections to a remote EIS server. This preallocation avoids the overhead imposed when each instance of a component creates a separate connection. Connection pooling is only supported for database connections, and the size of the pool is controlled by the Max Pool Size property of the connection.