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Get the Report →Configure the CData JDBC Driver for Streak in a Connection Pool in Tomcat
Connect to Streak data from a connection pool in Tomcat.
The CData JDBC Drivers support standard JDBC interfaces to integrate with Web applications running on the JVM. This article details how to connect to Streak data from a connection pool in Tomcat.
Connect to Streak Data through a Connection Pool in Tomcat
- Copy the CData JAR and CData .lic file to $CATALINA_HOME/lib. The CData JAR is located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
- Add a definition of the resource to the context. Specify the JDBC URL here.
Use the following steps to generate a new API key for authenticating to Streak.
- Navigate to Gmail
- Click on the Streak dropdown to the right of the search bar
- Select the Integrations button. This will open a window where you can view existing integrations and create new API keys.
- Under the Streak API section of integrations, click the button to Create New Key.
Built-in Connection String Designer
For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Streak JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.
java -jar cdata.jdbc.streak.jar
Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.
You can see the JDBC URL specified in the resource definition below.
<Resource name="jdbc/streak" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="cdata.jdbc.streak.StreakDriver" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" url="jdbc:streak:ApiKey=8c84j9b4j54762ce809ej6a782d776j3;" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="-1" />
To allow a single application to access Streak data, add the code above to the context.xml in the application's META-INF directory.
For a shared resource configuration, add the code above to the context.xml located in $CATALINA_BASE/conf. A shared resource configuration provides connectivity to Streak for all applications.
- Add a reference to the resource to the web.xml for the application.
Streak data JSP jdbc/Streak javax.sql.DataSource Container -
Initialize connections from the connection pool:
Context initContext = new InitialContext(); Context envContext = (Context)initContext.lookup("java:/comp/env"); DataSource ds = (DataSource)envContext.lookup("jdbc/Streak"); Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
More Tomcat Integration
The steps above show how to connect to Streak data in a simple connection pooling scenario. For more use cases and information, see the JNDI Datasource How-To in the Tomcat documentation.