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

Connect to Amazon Marketplace 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 the Amazon Marketplace Webservice (MWS), AWSAccessKeyId, MWSAuthToken, AWSSecretKey and SellerId are required. You can optionally set the Marketplace property. For more information on obtaining values for these properties, refer to the Help documentation.

   Built-in Connection String Designer

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

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.amazonmarketplace.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/amazonmarketplace" auth="Container" type="javax.sql.DataSource" driverClassName="cdata.jdbc.amazonmarketplace.AmazonMarketplaceDriver" factory="org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DataSourceFactory" url="jdbc:amazonmarketplace:AWS Access Key Id=myAWSAccessKeyId;AWS Secret Key=myAWSSecretKey;MWS Auth Token=myMWSAuthToken;Seller Id=mySellerId;Marketplace=United States;" maxActive="20" maxIdle="10" maxWait="-1" />

   To allow a single application to access Amazon Marketplace 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 Amazon Marketplace for all applications.

3. Add a reference to the resource to the web.xml for the application. Amazon Marketplace data JSP jdbc/AmazonMarketplace 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/AmazonMarketplace"); Connection conn = ds.getConnection();

More Tomcat Integration

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