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Connect to Adobe Commerce in a Spring Boot Application using CData JDBC Adobe Commerce Driver
Spring Boot is a framework that makes engineering Java web applications easier. It offers the ability to create standalone applications with minimal configuration. When paired with the CData JDBC driver for Adobe Commerce, Spring Boot can work with live Adobe Commerce data. This article shows how to configure data sources and retrieve data in your Java Spring Boot Application, using the CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Commerce.
With built-in optimized data processing, the CData JDBC Driver offers unmatched performance for interacting with live Adobe Commerce data. When you issue complex SQL queries to Adobe Commerce, the driver pushes supported SQL operations, like filters and aggregations, directly to Adobe Commerce and utilizes the embedded SQL engine to process unsupported operations client-side (often SQL functions and JOIN operations). Its built-in dynamic metadata querying allows you to work with and analyze Adobe Commerce data using native data types.
Creating the Spring Boot Project in Java
In an IDE (in this tutorial, we use IntelliJ), choose a Maven project:
In the generated project, go to the pom.xml file, and add the required dependencies for Spring Boot:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.7.2</version>
<relativePath/>
</parent>
<groupId>com.example</groupId>
<artifactId>demo</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>demo</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>id.install-file</id>
<phase>clean</phase>
<goals>
<goal>install-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<file>C:\Program Files\CData\CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Commerce ####\lib\cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.jar</file>
<groupId>org.cdata.connectors</groupId>
<artifactId>cdata-adobe commerce-connector</artifactId>
<version>21</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
<version>2.7.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.cdata.connectors</groupId>
<artifactId>cdata-adobe commerce-connector</artifactId>
<version>21</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion>
<id>test</id>
<name>My Repository</name>
<url>scp://repo/maven2</url>
<layout>default</layout>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
</project>
Project Structure
In the java directory, create a new package. Usually the name of the package is the name of the groupId (com.example) followed by the artifactId (.MDS).
Make sure that the "java" directory is the sources root; this is indicated with a blue color. You may need to right click the java directory and select Mark Directory -> Sources Root. Also, the resources directory should be marked as Resources Root.

Database Connection Properties
In the application.properties file, we set the configuration properties for the Adobe Commerce JDBC Driver, using the Class name and JDBC URL:
spring.datasource.driver=cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.Adobe CommerceDriver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:adobe commerce:OAuthClientId=MyConsumerKey;OAuthClientSecret=MyConsumerSecret;CallbackURL=http://127.0.0.1:33333;Url=https://myAdobe Commercehost.com;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH
Built-in Connection String Designer
For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Adobe Commerce JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.
java -jar cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.jar
Adobe Commerce uses the OAuth 1 authentication standard. To connect to the Adobe Commerce REST API, you will need to obtain values for the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties by registering an app with your Adobe Commerce system. See the "Getting Started" section in the help documentation for a guide to obtaining the OAuth values and connecting.
You will also need to provide the URL to your Adobe Commerce system. The URL depends on whether you are using the Adobe Commerce REST API as a customer or administrator.
Customer: To use Adobe Commerce as a customer, make sure you have created a customer account in the Adobe Commerce homepage. To do so, click Account -> Register. You can then set the URL connection property to the endpoint of your Adobe Commerce system.
Administrator: To access Adobe Commerce as an administrator, set CustomAdminPath instead. This value can be obtained in the Advanced settings in the Admin menu, which can be accessed by selecting System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Admin -> Admin Base URL.
If the Use Custom Admin Path setting on this page is set to YES, the value is inside the Custom Admin Path text box; otherwise, set the CustomAdminPath connection property to the default value, which is "admin".

After setting the properties in the application.properties file, we now configure them.
Data Source Configuration
First, we mark the Adobe Commerce data source as our primary data source. Then, we create a Data Source Bean.
Create a DriverManagerDataSource.java file and create a Bean within it, as shown below. If @Bean gives an error, Spring Boot may not have loaded properly. To fix this, go to File -> Invalidate Caches and restart. Additionally, make sure that Maven has added the Spring Boot dependencies.
To create a data source bean, we use DriverManagerDataSource Class. This class allows us to set the properties of the data source. The following code shows the bean definition of our data source. Each driver should have a bean.
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.jdbc.DataSourceBuilder;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Primary;
import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
import javax.sql.DataSource;
public class DriverManagerDataSource{
@Autowired
private static Environment env;
@Bean(name ="Adobe Commerce")
@Primary
public static DataSource Adobe CommerceDataSource()
{
DataSourceBuilder<?> dataSourceBuilder = DataSourceBuilder.create();
dataSourceBuilder.driverClassName("cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.Adobe CommerceDriver");
dataSourceBuilder.url("jdbc:adobe commerce:OAuthClientId=MyConsumerKey;OAuthClientSecret=MyConsumerSecret;CallbackURL=http://127.0.0.1:33333;Url=https://myAdobe Commercehost.com;InitiateOAuth=GETANDREFRESH");
return dataSourceBuilder.build();
}
//@Override
public void setEnvironment( final Environment environment) {
env=environment;
}
}
Next, move the Adobe Commerce jar file to the Documents folder (see path in command below). Then, click the
Maven icon (top right corner of IntelliJ) and click "Execute Maven Goal." Now, run the following command:
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=C:\Program Files\CData\CData JDBC Driver for Adobe Commerce ####\lib\cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce.jar -DgroupId=cdata.jdbc.adobe commerce -DartifactId=cdata-adobe commerce-connector -Dversion=21 -Dpackaging=jar
After pressing enter, we see the following output:
Testing the Connection
The last step is testing the connection. We call the data source in the main method of MDSApplication.java:
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration;
import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import static com.example.demo.DriverManagerDataSources.Adobe CommerceDataSource;
@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class})
public class MDSApplication {
//remove the comment on the line below
public static void main (){
SpringApplication.run(DemoApplication.class, args);
Connection conn = Adobe CommerceDataSource().getConnection();
System.out.println("Catalog: "+ conn.getCatalog());
}
}
The output generated should look like this:
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