ManagedConnection Candidate set in matchManagedConnections

The J2CA 1.0 spec states that



The method matchManagedConnections enables application server to use a
resource adapterspecific

criteria for matching a ManagedConnection instance to service a connection
request.

Application server finds a candidate set of ManagedConnection instances from
its connection

pool based on application server-specific criteria and passes this candidate
set to the match-

ManagedConnections method.



Does this candidate set just have the currently unused managed connections
in the app server pool ?



Thanks,



Madhav