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Connect to QuickBooks Online Data from a Connection Pool in Jetty
The QuickBooks Online JDBC Driver supports connection pooling: This article shows how to connect faster to QuickBooks Online data from Web apps in Jetty.
The CData JDBC driver for QuickBooks Online is easy to integrate with Java Web applications. This article shows how to efficiently connect to QuickBooks Online data in Jetty by configuring the driver for connection pooling. You will configure a JNDI resource for QuickBooks Online in Jetty.
About QuickBooks Online Data Integration
CData provides the easiest way to access and integrate live data from QuickBooks Online. Customers use CData connectivity to:
- Realize high-performance data reads thanks to push-down query optimization for complex operations like filters and aggregations.
- Read, write, update, and delete QuickBooks Online data.
- Run reports, download attachments, and send or void invoices directly from code using SQL stored procedures.
- Connect securely using OAuth and modern cryptography, including TLS 1.2, SHA-256, and ECC.
Many users access live QuickBooks Online data from preferred analytics tools like Power BI and Excel, directly from databases with federated access, and use CData solutions to easily integrate QuickBooks Online data with automated workflows for business-to-business communications.
For more information on how customers are solving problems with CData's QuickBooks Online solutions, refer to our blog: https://www.cdata.com/blog/360-view-of-your-customers.
Getting Started
Configure the JDBC Driver for Salesforce as a JNDI Data Source
Follow the steps below to connect to Salesforce from Jetty.
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- Add the CData and license file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory, into the lib subfolder of the context path.
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Declare the resource and its scope. Enter the required connection properties in the resource declaration. This example declares the QuickBooks Online data source at the level of the Web app, in WEB-INF\jetty-env.xml.
<Configure id='qbonlinedemo' class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext"> <New id="qbonlinedemo" class="org.eclipse.jetty.plus.jndi.Resource"> <Arg><Ref refid="qbonlinedemo"/></Arg> <Arg>jdbc/qbonlinedb</Arg> <Arg> <New class="cdata.jdbc.quickbooksonline.QuickBooksOnlineDriver"> <Set name="url">jdbc:quickbooksonline:</Set> <Set name="InitiateOAuth">GETANDREFRESH</Set> </New> </Arg> </New> </Configure>QuickBooks Online uses the OAuth authentication standard. OAuth requires the authenticating user to log in through the browser. To authenticate using OAuth, you can use the embedded OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL or you can obtain your own by registering an app with Intuit. Additionally, if you want to connect to sandbox data, set UseSandbox to true.
See the Getting Started chapter of the help documentation for a guide to using OAuth.
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Configure the resource in the Web.xml:
jdbc/qbonlinedb javax.sql.DataSource Container -
You can then access QuickBooks Online with a lookup to java:comp/env/jdbc/qbonlinedb:
InitialContext ctx = new InitialContext(); DataSource myqbonline = (DataSource)ctx.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/qbonlinedb");
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.
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QuickBooks Online JDBC Driver
Complete read-write access to QuickBooks Online enables developers to search (Customers, Transactions, Invoices, Sales Receipts, etc.), update items, edit customers, and more, from any Java/J2EE application.
