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edited by smmccraw
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1 -Programming__WebObjects-Database Compatibility and Comparisons-FrontBase
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5 5  Make sure you have the FrontBase jdbc connector accessible from your WebObjects applications. I placed mine in /Library/Java/Extensions/
6 6  Make sure that the FrontBasePlugIn.framework is located in /Library/Java/Frameworks
7 7  Make sure that you have added the framework to your project or you will not be able to establish a connection to your database, even though you'll be able to see your database from EOModeler.
8 -If you haven't yet assigned a User/Password combination to your database, you still must include User information in order for the connection to be established. Use //system to get started. The URL for basic connection is: jdbc:FrontBase:~/~/localhost/my_database_name//
8 +If you haven't yet assigned a User/Password combination to your database, you still must include User information in order for the connection to be established. Use system to get started. The URL for basic connection is: jdbc:FrontBase:~/~/localhost/my_database_name
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10 10  The documentation available at the Frontbase site is very complete. The only gotcha was that I was left with the impression the framework was only necessary for WebObjects 4.5 and below. This is not the case, you have to install and include it for WO 5 projects too.
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14 14  In most cases the datatypes are exactly the same. Here are the FrontBase equivalents for common datatypes in MySQL that are different:
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16 -TEXT ~-~-> CLOB
16 +TEXT -> CLOB
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18 -DATETIME ~-~-> TIMESTAMP
18 +DATETIME -> TIMESTAMP
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20 -INT ~-~-> INTEGER
20 +INT -> INTEGER
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22 -MEDIUMBLOB ~-~-> BLOB
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24 -Category:WebObjects
22 +MEDIUMBLOB -> BLOB