B.5.3. jTDS JDBC Driver


jTDS is an open source 100% pure Java (type 4) JDBC 3.0 driver for Microsoft SQL Server (6.5, 7, 2000 and 2005) and Sybase (10, 11, 12, 15). jTDS is based on FreeTDS and is currently the fastest production-ready JDBC driver for microsoft SQL Server and Sybase. jTDS is 100% JDBC 3.0 compatible, supporting forward-only and scrollable/updatable ResultSets, concurrent (completely independent) Statements and implementing all the DatabaseMetaData and ResultSetMetaData methods.
Download jTDS from http://jtds.sourceforge.net/.

Example B.17. jTDS Local-TX Datasource

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>


<datasources>
  <local-tx-datasource>
    <jndi-name>jtdsDS</jndi-name>
    <connection-url>jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://localhost:1433;databaseName=pubs</connection-url>
    <driver-class>net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver</driver-class>
    <user-name>sa</user-name>
    <password>jboss</password>

    <!-- optional parameters -->
    <transaction-isolation>TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED</transaction-isolation>
    <min-pool-size>10</min-pool-size>
    <max-pool-size>30</max-pool-size>
    <idle-timeout-minutes>15</idle-timeout-minutes>
    <blocking-timeout-millis>5000</blocking-timeout-millis>    
    <new-connection-sql>select 1</new-connection-sql>
    <check-valid-connection-sql>select 1</check-valid-connection-sql>
    <set-tx-query-timeout></set-tx-query-timeout>
    <metadata>
      <type-mapping>MS SQLSERVER2000</type-mapping>
    </metadata>
  </local-tx-datasource>
</datasources>
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Example B.18. jTDS XA Datasource

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<datasources>
  <xa-datasource>
    <jndi-name>jtdsXADS</jndi-name>
    <xa-datasource-class>net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbcx.JtdsDataSource</xa-datasource-class>
    <xa-datasource-property name="ServerName">localhost</xa-datasource-property>
    <xa-datasource-property name="DatabaseName">pubs</xa-datasource-property>
    <xa-datasource-property name="User">sa</xa-datasource-property>
    <xa-datasource-property name="Password">jboss</xa-datasource-property>

    <!-- 
	 When set to true, emulate XA distributed transaction support. Set to false to use experimental 
	 true distributed transaction support. True distributed transaction support is only available for 
	 SQL Server 2000 and requires the installation of an external stored procedure in the target server 
	 (see the README.XA file in the distribution for details).
    -->
    <xa-datasource-property name="XaEmulation">true</xa-datasource-property>

    <track-connection-by-tx></track-connection-by-tx>

    <!-- optional parameters -->
    <transaction-isolation>TRANSACTION_READ_COMMITTED</transaction-isolation>
    <min-pool-size>10</min-pool-size>
    <max-pool-size>30</max-pool-size>
    <idle-timeout-minutes>15</idle-timeout-minutes>
    <blocking-timeout-millis>5000</blocking-timeout-millis>    
    <new-connection-sql>select 1</new-connection-sql>
    <check-valid-connection-sql>select 1</check-valid-connection-sql>
    <set-tx-query-timeout></set-tx-query-timeout>
    <metadata>
      <type-mapping>MS SQLSERVER2000</type-mapping>
    </metadata>
  </xa-datasource>

</datasources>
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