How to use datasources in Intellij IDEA

Question

Hello just starting to learn JAVA and I am trying to create a web application. So far I have managed to get the Tomcat server working and connect my Intellij IDE to my SQL sever instance creating a datasource.

My question is how to properly access this datasource in code. I want o create a method that gets the Connection object from the datasource. However I am at loss when it comes how to do it.

My basic idea is to create a class containing the Connection GetConncetion() method, that returns the connection object, this should be achieved by calling the Datasource.getConnection(), but how do I make the datasource in question the one that is created by my IDE (Intellij IDEA)? I have located the DataSources.local.xml with the datasource name so I would like use this information to access it, however I dont know how to do it.

I have quite a clear idea how to do this using DriverManager, however I would like to learn how to use this more convinient datasource method.

The database in question is created using Microsft SQL server and the driver used is jdbc.

Answer 1

IDEA is just an IDE. Your application shouldn't be IDE or editor dependent, and IDEA therefore doesn't give you such facilities (and Java doesn't depend on them). Instead, have a look at the Properties class which provides pretty much what you want.