Connect to ZohoMarketingHub Data from a Connection Pool in Jetty

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

The CData JDBC driver for ZohoMarketingHub is easy to integrate with Java Web applications. This article shows how to efficiently connect to ZohoMarketingHub data in Jetty by configuring the driver for connection pooling. You will configure a JNDI resource for ZohoMarketingHub 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 ZohoMarketingHub data source at the level of the Web app, in WEB-INF\jetty-env.xml.

    
    <Configure id='zohomarketinghubdemo' class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
        <New id="zohomarketinghubdemo" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource">
        <Arg><Ref refid="zohomarketinghubdemo"/></Arg>
        <Arg>jdbc/zohomarketinghubdb</Arg>
        <Arg>
          <New class="cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver">
            <Set name="url">jdbc:api:</Set>
            <Set name="Profile">C:\profiles\ZohoMarketingHub.apip</Set>
            <Set name="Authscheme">OAuth</Set>
            <Set name="OAuthClientId">your_client_id</Set>
            <Set name="OAuthClientSecret">your_client_secret</Set>
            <Set name="CallbackUrl">your_callback_url</Set>
          </New>
        </Arg>
      </New>
    </Configure>
    

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

    ZohoMarketingHub API Profile Settings

    Register an OAuth application in the Zoho Developer Console as a server-based application to obtain your Client ID and Client Secret.

  4. Configure the resource in the Web.xml:

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

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

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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