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The Database Connector is a web application that allows you to easily integrate your forms and flows with your external database. The connector is included in the frevvo tomcat bundle. A Standalone Bundle is also available. Cloud customers, running the connector behind their firewall and in-house customers, can choose to: - install /configure the Database Connector in your tomcat bundle on their in-house server OR
- install the Standalone Bundle on their in-house server
We recommend the frevvo-tomcat bundle for in-house customers. Follow the frevvo-tomcat bundle Instructions. We recommend the Standalone bundle for cloud customers as no additional servlet container is needed. Standalone is also useful for in-house customers who want to run the connector on a different server than the server installation. Follow the Standalone Bundle Instructions When you complete installation instructions then follow the Connector Configuration Instructions - detailed steps to integrate the connector with your database. Cloud customers must also verify connector connectivity to the frevvo Cloud Server. |
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The connector relies on the JDBC API. You can use any relational database as long as you must have a JDBC driver for that databaseyour database. Refer to Supported Platforms for the list of databases certified by frevvo.
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Download the latest frevvo-tomcat bundle from the frevvo website.
Download the Database Connector war file. Rename it to database.war.
Extract the tomcat bundle zipfile to a location of your choice. We will refer to this directory as <frevvo-home>.
Copy database.war to <frevvo-home>\tomcat\webapps.
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- Test the connector installation by copying this URL directly into your browser:
http://localhost:8082/database/status
After performing these steps you will have: successfully installed the database connector and retrieved data from the built-in test database - Log into as the superuser (admin@d, admin). Create a tenant.
- Create a designer user in the tenant
- Download the Database Connector Application, then upload it to your designer user. This application includes some example forms that demonstrate the power of the Database Connector using built-in databases.
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Standalone Mode:- Download the Standalone connector zipfile here.
- Unzip the database.zip file to a location of your choice. We will refer to this directory as <db-home>
- Start the connector using plain java command or execute one of the files in this directory to install the DB Connector as a Windows service or *nix console instance:
- Choose one of these methods to start the connector:
- Method 1: Using java in a command window
- Navigate to the <db-home> directory.
- Type java -jar database.war
- Method 2: for Windows OS
- Install the DB Connector as a Windows service by double clicking the Install-Service.bat file. Click the Start DBConnector Service.bat to start the service.
- Method 2 for *nix OS
- Execute the DB Connector.sh shell script for *nix operating systems.
- Test the connector installation by copying this URL directly into your browser:
http://localhost:8081/database/status
- Note the standalone connector runs on port 8081 by default. The port number can be changed when you configure the DB Connector in the next step. Use port 8081 to verify that the Db Connector is up and running for now.
- Verify that query validation page is loaded with status Passed for the built-in database BIRT and myStore querysets.
- Download the Database Connector Application and upload it to the designer user in your Cloud tenant for some example forms that demonstrate the power of the Database Connector using built-in databases.
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