Connecting to Excel Services

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Excel Services and configure any necessary connection properties in a JDBC URL. You can also configure driver capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Connecting to JDBC Data Sources

The CData JDBC Driver for Microsoft SharePoint Excel provides full support for integration into Java applications, including Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, and many other Integrated Development Environments, as well as J2EE applications running on a Java server such as Tomcat. You can find JSP, console, and swing demos in the installation folder.

Java Version Support

To deploy the driver JAR file, you must have Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.8 or higher installed on your system.

Excel Services Version Support

The driver supports retrieving Excel data from SharePoint On-Premises through the REST API and through the OData API introduced in SharePoint 2013. Excel files must have the .xlsx format used in Excel 2007 and later.

Note: Microsoft has stated that they plan to sunset the Excel Services API for SharePoint Online in February 2022. Please consider migrating to the CData driver for Excel Online for future access to your SharePoint data.

See Also

• Create Connection Objects

  See Connecting from Code to create JDBC Connection objects.

• Query Data from Code

  See Executing Statements and Using Prepared Statements to execute SQL statements to Excel Services tables.

• Connect from Java-Based Tools

  See Using from Tools shows how to connect to Excel Services and query data from several popular database tools.