Step-by-step installation instructions

1. Install Tomcat

2. Install webapplication by either copying ajaxmdb.war into the webapps folder of your tomcat homedirectory and letting tomcat extract it automatically (only when it is running) or by extracting it manually into webapps/ajaxmdb

3. Install required libraries by copying the *.jar files

into WEB-INF/lib directory of AjaxMDB (%TOMCAT_HOME%/webapps/ajaxmdb/WEB-INF/lib)

• Apache MyFaces Core + Tomahawk (www.myfaces.org)
• AjaxAnywhere (ajaxanywhere.sourceforge.net)
• iText (www.lowagie.com/iText/)
• Apache Jakarta Commons (jakarta.apache.org/commons/)
  • HttpClient
  • Validator
  • FileUpload

into common/lib of tomcat homedirectory (%TOMCAT_HOME%/common/lib)

• PostgreSQL JDBC Driver (jdbc.postgresql.org)
• Apache Jakarta Commons (jakarta.apache.org/commons/)
  • DBCP
  • Collections
  • Pool

4. Copy the aa folder from AjaxAnywhere into webapps/ajaxmdb folder

5. Install PostgreSQL Database

6. Install Datatables by installing create_db.sql from the sql directory of AjaxMDB. First create the database using UTF-8 as character set. After that load the sql data.

7. Insert the following configuration into your server.xml in %TOMCAT_HOME%/conf to the <Host> Tag adjusting the paths and the access data for the postgres database.

<Context path="/ajaxmdb"
reloadable="true"
docBase="C:\Programme\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\webapps\ajaxmdb"
workDir="C:\Programme\apache-tomcat-5.5.17\webapps\ajaxmdb\work"
cleanWorkDir="true">

<Resource
name="jdbc/postgres"
auth="Container"
type="javax.sql.DataSource"
factory="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSourceFactory"
driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
url="jdbc:postgresql://127.0.0.1/tmp"
username="postgres"
password="postgres"
maxActive="20"
maxIdle="10"
maxWait="-1" />

</Context>