© 2002 Legion Systems Inc 1 Howard Chen - April 6, 2010 EGL Database Connections

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 2 asiEGL EGL Database Connections Define JDBC Drivers –DB2/400 –Oracle 10g Express –SQLServer 2008 Create Database Connections –DB2/400 Library –Oracle HR Database –SQLServer Northwind Database Define Build Descriptor db Options Define context.xml for Tomcat 5 and up Additional runtime jar files Getting data from multiple databases

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 3 asiEGL Define JDBC Drivers 1 of 2 JDBC Drivers: –DB2/400: jt400.jar AS/400 toolbox for java default –Oracle: ojdbc14.jar Oracle thin driver default –SQLServer: sqljdbc4.jar SQL server JDBC driver default Window  Preferences  Data Management  Connectivity  Driver Definitions Highlight Driver name Click Edit

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 4 asiEGL Define JDBC Drivers 2 of 2 If EGL displays an error message that says “Unable to locate JAR” Click “Jar List” Click to highlight the jar file Click “Edit JAR/Zip Browse to the location of the jar file you downloaded and saved Click Open. The “Unable to locate JAR” message is resolved

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 5 asiEGL Create Database Connections – AS400 1 of 2 Window  Preferences  EGL  SQL Database Connections Click New Select “DB2 for i5/OS” Accept the default driver name Enter the host name, it can be an IP address or a DNS name Enter User Name and Password Check “Save Password” Click Test Connection

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 6 asiEGL Create Database Connections – AS400 2 of 2 Click Next unCheck “Disable Filter” Check “Expression” or “Selection” to select libraries Click Finish

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 7 asiEGL Create Database Connections – Oracle 10g Express Follow the same steps as described before Optionally, you can click the triangle icon to the right of the JDBC driver name to update JDBC driver jar file

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 8 asiEGL Create Database Connections – SQL Server 2008 Follow the same steps as described before You can use 2005 Driver for SQL Server 2008 Database

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 9 asiEGL Define Build Descriptor DB Options 1 of 2 Open.eglbld file From “Load DB options using Connections drop down box Select the db connection Enter the JNDI name Press Ctrl-S to save

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 10 asiEGL Define Build Descriptor DB Options 2 of 2

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 11 asiEGL Context.xml for Tomcat Put Context.xml file in /WebContent/META-INF folder

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 12 asiEGL JAR Files for TOMCAT Runtime DB2/400 –jt400.jar –db2jcc.jar –db2jcc_license_cisuz.jar –db2jcc_license_cu.jar Oracle –ojdbc14.jar –activation.jar –mail.jar SQL Server 2008 –sqljdbc4.jar C:\Program Files\IBM\SDPShared\plugins\com.ibm.datatools.db2_ v \driver

© 2010 Anchor Systems, Inc. 13 asiEGL Getting Data From Multiple Databases Create a project for each db connection Use Data Access Wizard to retrieve database definitions Create Web Services for data access Copy wsdl files to the Application Project Use “EGL Service”  “Create EGL Client Interface” to create Web Service interfaces Consume web services for both JSF and RUI

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