Connect to Confluence Data from a Connection Pool in Jetty

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

   <Configure id='confluencedemo' class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
    <New id="confluencedemo" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource">
    <Arg><Ref refid="confluencedemo"/></Arg>
    <Arg>jdbc/confluencedb</Arg>
    <Arg>
    <New class="cdata.jdbc.confluence.ConfluenceDriver">
    <Set name="url">jdbc:confluence:</Set>
    <Set name="User">admin</Set>
    <Set name="APIToken">myApiToken</Set>
    <Set name="Url">https://yoursitename.atlassian.net</Set>
    <Set name="Timezone">America/New_York</Set>
    </New>
    </Arg>
    </New>
   </Configure>
   

   Obtaining an API Token

   An API token is necessary for account authentication. To generate one, login to your Atlassian account and navigate to API tokens > Create API token. The generated token will be displayed.

   Connect Using a Confluence Cloud Account

   To connect to a Cloud account, provide the following (Note: Password has been deprecated for connecting to a Cloud Account and is now used only to connect to a Server Instance.):

   • User: The user which will be used to authenticate with the Confluence server.
   • APIToken: The API Token associated with the currently authenticated user.
   • Url: The URL associated with your JIRA endpoint. For example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.

   Connect Using a Confluence Server Instance

   To connect to a Server instance, provide the following:

   • User: The user which will be used to authenticate with the Confluence instance.
   • Password: The password which will be used to authenticate with the Confluence server.
   • Url: The URL associated with your JIRA endpoint. For example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.

4. Configure the resource in the Web.xml:

    jdbc/confluencedb
    javax.sql.DataSource
    Container
   
   

5. You can then access Confluence with a lookup to java:comp/env/jdbc/confluencedb:

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

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.