Completely untested, needs some more work as follows:

A.  Handle reconnecting on full disconnects.
B.  refactor code to use same connection object in same task(Some tasks go through many methods that each get their own connection object)
C.  Test that it actually works :P

pom.xml

@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
                     <artifactSet>
                         <includes>
                             <include>com.turt2live.metrics:MetricsExtension</include>
+                            <include>net.snaq:dbpool</include>
                         </includes>
                     </artifactSet>
                     <relocations>
@@ -83,6 +84,10 @@
                             <pattern>com.turt2live.metrics</pattern>
                             <shadedPattern>com.gmail.nossr50.metrics.mcstats</shadedPattern>
                         </relocation>
+                        <relocation>
+                            <pattern>net.snaq</pattern>
+                            <shadedPattern>com.gmail.nossr50.dbpool</shadedPattern>
+                        </relocation>
                     </relocations>
                 </configuration>
                 <executions>
@@ -136,6 +141,11 @@
             <artifactId>MetricsExtension</artifactId>
             <version>0.0.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>net.snaq</groupId>
+            <artifactId>dbpool</artifactId>
+            <version>5.1</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
     <distributionManagement>
         <repository>