Connect to Pinecone Data from a Connection Pool in Jetty

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

   <Configure id='pineconedemo' class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
    <New id="pineconedemo" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource">
    <Arg><Ref refid="pineconedemo"/></Arg>
    <Arg>jdbc/pineconedb</Arg>
    <Arg>
    <New class="cdata.jdbc.api.APIDriver">
    <Set name="url">jdbc:api:</Set>
    <Set name="Profile">C:\profiles\Pinecone.apip</Set>
    <Set name="AuthScheme">APIKey</Set>
    <Set name="ProfileSettings">'APIKey</Set>
    <Set name="APIVersion">2025-10'</Set>
    </New>
    </Arg>
    </New>
   </Configure>
   

   Authentication

   To authenticate to Pinecone, and connect to your own data or to allow other users to connect to their data, you can use API Key authentication.

   Using API Key Authentication

   To authenticate using an API Key, you need to obtain your API Key from your Pinecone console at https://app.pinecone.io/.

   You can then connect by setting the AuthScheme to APIKey and providing your API key:

   • AuthScheme: Set this to APIKey.
   • APIKey: Set this to your API key from Pinecone.

   Example connection strings:

   Standard API Key Configuration:

   Profile=C:\profiles\Pinecone.apip;AuthScheme=APIKey;ProfileSettings='APIKey=your_api_key;APIVersion=2025-10';
   

4. Configure the resource in the Web.xml:

    jdbc/pineconedb
    javax.sql.DataSource
    Container
   
   

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

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

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.