Configure the CData JDBC Driver for DocuSign in 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 DocuSign data from a connection pool in Tomcat.

Connect to DocuSign Data through a Connection Pool in Tomcat

1. 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.
2. Add a definition of the resource to the context. Specify the JDBC URL here.

   To connect to DocuSign, set the following connection properties:

   • UseSandbox: indicates whether current user account is sandbox or not (FALSE by default)
   • AccountId (optional): set it in the connection string if you have access to multiple Account Ids

   Authenticating to DocuSign

   DocuSign uses the OAuth authentication standard. To authenticate using OAuth, create an app to obtain the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties. See the Help documentation more information.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the DocuSign JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.docusign.jar
   

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   👁 Using the built-in connection string designer to generate a JDBC URL (Salesforce is shown.)
   

   You can see the JDBC URL specified in the resource definition below.

   <Resource name="jdbc/docusign" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="cdata.jdbc.docusign.DocuSignDriver" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" url="jdbc:docusign:OAuthClientId=MyClientId; OAuthClientSecret=MyClientSecret; 
   CallbackURL=http://localhost:33333;
   " maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="-1" />
   

   To allow a single application to access DocuSign 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 DocuSign for all applications.

3. Add a reference to the resource to the web.xml for the application.

    DocuSign data JSP
    jdbc/DocuSign
    javax.sql.DataSource
    Container
   
   

4. Initialize connections from the connection pool:

   Context initContext = new InitialContext();
   Context envContext = (Context)initContext.lookup("java:/comp/env");
   DataSource ds = (DataSource)envContext.lookup("jdbc/DocuSign");
   Connection conn = ds.getConnection();
    

More Tomcat Integration

The steps above show how to connect to DocuSign data in a simple connection pooling scenario. For more use cases and information, see the JNDI Datasource How-To in the Tomcat documentation.