JDBC properties file with pure Taskspace application?

To use a JDBC Data Source Adapter, according to the Forms Builder User Guide, one has to define the JDBC connection properties in a file, jdbc_AdapterName.properties. This file should go under WEB-INF/classes.

However, how does this work with pure Taskspace applications? There is no Web application (WAR file) to deploy. Where is one supposed to put the jdbc properties file??

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aabdallah

Good timing EMC - Daniel Ciruli's Forms Builder video just clarified this.

aabdallah

To whoever has the same problem:

Summary (I'm not sure if the EMC video mentioned the last step, but I definitely needed it):

(Highly Recommended) 1. If you use taskspace, don't deploy it as a war file, deploy it as an exploded war directory. You will need to modify files in it over time - as this example showed. EMC, you should modify your documentation to mention this when talking about Taskspace installation.

(Required) 2. Put your jdbc_*.properties files in the taskspace.war/WEB-INF/classes directory.

(Highly Recommended) 3. While you're in there, you might as well modify the log4j.properties to refer to a separate log file for taskspace. This is enormously useful for future debugging, and helped me figure out the last step in this configuration problem...

(Required) 4. ...and that was a missing JDBC driver. You need to copy your JDBC driver jar file into taskspace.war/WEB-INF/lib.

You should see things work after that.

Ahmed

Ciruli

Ahmed -

I'm really glad that my video helped!

And thanks for the clarifications and recommendations for best practices, too.

aabdallah

Daniel,

Thanks for the video; it was very helpful. I'm believe the recommendations might be documented somewhere already, but I guess it doesn't hurt to mention them just in case.

We did run into one more problem, hopefully the last, that we are struggling with ... perhaps you have some advice?

It's in this thread: https://community.emc.com/thread/96067

Thanks again

Ahmed.