Pool de conexões jdbc do Tomcat - reversão de transação abandonada

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import org.junit.Test;


public class DBTest {

    public Connection openConnection() throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException {
        Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
        Connection c = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test", "root", "password");
        c.setAutoCommit(false);
        return c;
    }

    @Test
    public void testSO25886466() throws SQLException, ClassNotFoundException {

        {
            Connection c = openConnection();
            PreparedStatement delete = c.prepareStatement("delete from temp");
            delete.executeUpdate();
            c.commit();
            c.close();
        }

        {
            Connection c = openConnection();
            PreparedStatement insert = c.prepareStatement("insert into temp values ('a', 'b')");
            insert.execute();
            //c.commit(); as the op says, DONT commit!!
            c.close(); //WITHOUT having closed the statement or committing the transaction!!
        }

        {
            Connection c = openConnection();
            PreparedStatement select = c.prepareStatement("select count(*) from temp");
            select.execute();
            ResultSet rs = select.getResultSet();
            while(rs.next()){
                assertEquals(0/*i'd expect zero here!*/, rs.getInt(1));
            }
            rs.close();
            select.close();
            c.close();
        }
    }
}