Connecting to Microsoft SharePoint

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Microsoft SharePoint 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 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.

Microsoft SharePoint Version Support

The driver supports all versions of Microsoft SharePoint that support the SOAP API. This includes: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Server 2007+ (2010, 2013, etc.), and SharePoint Online. The driver models the custom lists of your SharePoint site as bidirectional tables; when you connect, the driver retrieves the metadata for these tables by calling SharePoint Web services. Supported authentication schemes are NTLM, Basic, Digest, Forms, Kerberos, SSO, STS (security token services), and SharePoint authentication cookies.

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 Microsoft SharePoint tables.

• Connect from Java-Based Tools

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