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This article guides you through the JDBC features in the Apache Geronimo appplication server. To demonstrate the JDBC features, we use a simple Inventory application which has JSP, Servlets to handle web related features and inbuilt Derby as database.
Inventory Application will use the Service Provider Interface(SPI) method to access it's database. In this method the application uses a JDBC DataSource interface to establish connections with the database. This is the preferred access method for a J2EE application for several reasons:
After reading this article you should be able get the best out of the JDBC features of Geronimo, such as defining database pools and using DataSources to access databases.
This article is organized in to following sections.
JDBC implementation in application servers vary from application server to other. Following table gives a feature list of JDBC in Apache Geronimo.
Feature | Description |
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JDBC access | Geronimo does not have any direct integration with JDBC but supports access through the generic J2CA framework. The TranQL project has J2CA adapters for various databases. |
JCA implementation | Geronimo supports the JCA 1.5 specification and is backward compatible to the JCA 1.0 specification. |
Data sources supported | TranQL has generic wrappers for each data sources. |
Data source failover | TranQL has specialized drivers for certain databases (including Apache Derby, Oracle and DB2) that provide a tighter integration with the advanced features of the driver. |
XA support | Supports XA transactions, Local Transactions, and No transaction. |
Connection Manager Configurability | The J2CA framework is interceptor based which allows different parts of the connection framework to be plugged in. |
JTA implementation | Transaction support is provided through Geronimo Specific Transaction Managing Framework and HOWL. |
Connection pooling and management | Custom Geronimo Code and TranQL used for connection pooling and management. |
Legacy driver support | Geronimo provides this through the TranQL- connector JDBC to JCA wrapper in Geronimo. Supports JDBC 3.0 and 2.1. |
The Inventory application in this article only supports three basic usecases of such applications.
The Inventory Web Application has following list of pages
The following figure illustrates the application flow.
Welcome page of the application acting as a notice board which displays current stock of each item. Through the Welcome page users can access Add Item, Recieve Goods or Issue Goods Pages. Upon successful completion of each activity, the page will be redirected back to the Welcome page with updated stock information. Add Item helps to define items in the stock, then 0 number of items will be added to the stock. Recieve and Issue Goods pages represent Goods Recieving and Issueing activities of the application respectively.
The Inventory application consist of following list of packages and classes.
The list of web application files in the application is depicted in the following.
Application defines a datasource with the help of geronimo-web.xml and web.xml files. geronimo-web.xml add a link between the database pool already deployed in the server. It referes database pool via it's artifactId.
Following is the web.xml of the Inventory application. It uses same name as in the geronimo-web.xml, which is used to create the datasource.
Next important phase of the application is accessing defined datasource from the source code. This part is handled by the DBManager class.
The sample database that is being used to demonstrate this application is in-built Derby database. The name of the sample database is InventoryDB and it consists of two tables, namely ITEM and ITEM_MASTER. The fields for each of these tables are described below.
Table Name | Fields |
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ITEM | ITEM_ID (PRIMARY KEY) |
ITEM_MASTER | ITEM_ID (PRIMARY KEY) |
The ITEM table stores the data related to the items while ITEM_MASTER stores the quantity in hand of each item.
The tools used for developing and building the Inventory sample application are:
Apache Derby, an Apache DB subproject, is a relational database implemented in Java. Its footprint is so small you can easily embed it in any Java-based solution. In addition to its embedded framework, Derby supports a more familiar client/server framework with the Derby Network Server.
http://db.apache.org/derby/index.html
The Eclipse IDE was used for development of the sample application. This is a very powerful and popular open source development tool. It has integration plug-ins for the Geronimo too. Eclipse can be downloaded from the following URL:
http://www.eclipse.org
Ant is a pure Java build tool. It is used for building the war files for the Inventory application. Ant can be downloaded from the following URL:
http://ant.apache.org
Download the Inventory application from the following link:
Inventory
After decompressing the given file, the inventory directory is created.
Configuration of the application consists of creating the database and defining the connection pool to access it.
After starting Apache Geronimo log into the console and follow the given steps to create the InventoryDB database.
The application server going to access InventoryDB through a connection pool. Following are the list of steps to create the pool.
Upon successful deployment InventoryPool will appear on the Database Pools list of the Geronimo Console.
Inventory application comes with an Ant script to help users to build from source code. Use the command prompt to navigate into the inventory directory and just give ant command to build. It will create the Inventory.war file under the releases folder within inventory. Now, you are ready to deploy Inventory web application in to the Geronimo Application server.
Deploying sample application is pretty straight forward as we are going to use the Geronimo Console.
To test the sample application, open a browser and type http://localhost:8080/inventory. The Welcome page of Inventory application which is acts as a notice board will be loaded.
The user can directly access Add Items, Recieve Goods and Issue Goods functionalities from the Welcome page.
This article has shown you how to use JDBC features inside the Geronimo Application Server. You followed step-by-step instructions to build, deploy and test a sample application to elaborate these features.
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