jdba 0.7 http://www.jdba.org		
$Date: 2001/05/23 19:25:39 $
$Revision: 1.42 $

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All classes are written exclusively in the Java(tm) Programming
Language and may be used with and JDK 1.2 compliant system, as
well as 1.3 compliant kits (as of this release).

Be sure to read the License Agreement which applies to this
software.

At this time, the documentation for this release is primarily:

     This README
     The JavaDoc documentation in ./dest/docs/api after a 'make javadoc'

This application relies on some external software products that vary in 
their licenses; if any necessary app is redistributable, it will live in
./lib. Most of the tools are under the Apache License (www.apache.org),
such as ant, xerxes, etc. You'll need Oracle's drivers, which are closed
source; Sun's jaxp is under their Community license. For now, the only package
that you should have to get is the classesX.zip JDBC library from Oracle.


BUILDING jDBA
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To actually use this application, you'll need to have the thin JDBC
driver from Oracle, usually found in classes111.zip in your $ORACLE_HOME.
The provided scripts will set your CLASSPATH environment variable in a
unix environment.

To build the Java Database Administrator, you will need to have a
Java 1.2 compliant development kit (JDK) on your system. Be sure that
the javac and java executables are in your PATH. You can either run
the *nix shell script to build and run jDBA, or you can execute

on *nix
-------
% make


on win32
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C:\> hmmmmmmm, untested.

Or try to use build.bat in the build directory. There are reported problems
with it, but since we dont develop on windows this is the lowest priority thing
to fix.


RUNNING jDBA
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To run the Java Database Administrator, you will need to have the
compiled class files and a Java 1.2 compliant JRE on your system.
Once again, you'll need to have the Oracle JDBC driver in your
CLASSPATH environment variable or your ORACLE_HOME set properly 
(read your oracle documentation for that).

all
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The jdba.jar file is now runnable. As long as you have the java executable in
your PATH, you should be able to put the Oracle libs in your classpath and type

java -jar jdba.jar


on *nix
-------
% ./run.sh


on win32
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C:\>set CLASSPATH=X:\PATH\TO\classes111.zip
C:\>run.bat
    


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Thanks and erf!