Connect to Teamgate Data from a Connection Pool in Jetty

Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
The Teamgate JDBC Driver supports connection pooling: This article shows how to connect faster to Teamgate data from Web apps in Jetty.

The CData JDBC driver for Teamgate is easy to integrate with Java Web applications. This article shows how to efficiently connect to Teamgate data in Jetty by configuring the driver for connection pooling. You will configure a JNDI resource for Teamgate in Jetty.

Configure the JDBC Driver for Salesforce as a JNDI Data Source

Follow the steps below to connect to Salesforce from Jetty.

  1. Enable the JNDI module for your Jetty base. The following command enables JNDI from the command-line:

    java -jar ../start.jar --add-to-startd=jndi
    
  2. Add the CData and license file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory, into the lib subfolder of the context path.
  3. Declare the resource and its scope. Enter the required connection properties in the resource declaration. This example declares the Teamgate data source at the level of the Web app, in WEB-INF\jetty-env.xml.

    
    <Configure id='teamgatedemo' class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
        <New id="teamgatedemo" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource">
        <Arg><Ref refid="teamgatedemo"/></Arg>
        <Arg>jdbc/teamgatedb</Arg>
        <Arg>
          <New class="cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver">
            <Set name="url">jdbc:api:</Set>
            <Set name="Profile">C:\profiles\Teamgate.apip</Set>
            <Set name="ProfileSettings">'APIKey</Set>
            <Set name="AuthToken">your_auth_token'</Set>
          </New>
        </Arg>
      </New>
    </Configure>
    

    Start by setting the Profile connection property to the location of the Teamgate Profile on disk (e.g. C:\profiles\Teamgate.apip). Next, set the ProfileSettings connection property to the connection string for Teamgate (see below).

    Teamgate API Profile Settings

    To obtain your API Key, log into Teamgate and navigate to Settings > Additional Features > External Apps > New API Key Request. For your Auth Token, go to My Profile > Integrations > API Access > Auth Token.

  4. Configure the resource in the Web.xml:

    
      jdbc/teamgatedb
      javax.sql.DataSource
      Container
    
    
  5. You can then access Teamgate with a lookup to java:comp/env/jdbc/teamgatedb:

    InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext();
    DataSource myteamgate = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/teamgatedb");
    

More Jetty Integration

The steps above show how to configure the driver in a simple connection pooling scenario. For more use cases and information, see the Working with Jetty JNDI chapter in the Jetty documentation.

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