Running Jetspeed-2 using a MaxDB database

My professional goal for 2005 is to base the epoline portal on open source tools only.
The portal server framework is not chosen yet, altough it most likely will become jetspeed 2.
JBoss 4.0.1 will be used as application server, and MaxDB as database management system.

I have just succeeded to run Jetspeed-2 M1 using the MaxDB database.
First you need to setup 2 databases on MaxDB, a production database and a test database, the latter is used during compilation, when executing unit tests.

To allow the jetspeed 2 build process to create the database, you have to create or edit a build.properties file and add the following lines to it:


# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# configure MaxDB Test DB
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
org.apache.jetspeed.test.database.default.name=oracle
org.apache.jetspeed.test.database.url=jdbc:sapdb://<db-host>/j2test?sqlmode=ORACLE
org.apache.jetspeed.test.database.driver=com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.DriverSapDB
org.apache.jetspeed.test.database.user=<dba-user>
org.apache.jetspeed.test.database.password=<password>
org.apache.jetspeed.test.jdbc.drivers.path=<path-to>/sapdbc-7_6_00_00_3247.jar

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# configure MaxDB Production DB
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
org.apache.jetspeed.production.database.default.name=oracle
org.apache.jetspeed.production.database.url=jdbc:sapdb://<db-host>/j2prod?sqlmode=ORACLE
org.apache.jetspeed.production.database.driver=com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.DriverSapDB
org.apache.jetspeed.production.database.user=<dba-user>
org.apache.jetspeed.production.database.password=<password>
org.apache.jetspeed.production.jdbc.drivers.path=<path-to>/sapdbc-7_6_00_00_3247.jar

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now when running maven allClean allBuild, the database will be created on MaxDB.

All we now need to do to access the MaxDB database from j2 running on tomcat, is change the connection settings in ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost/jetspeed.xml.