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Version 3.1 by Pascal Robert on 2007/09/03 21:23
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1 FrontBase is now available for free. Please see the FrontBase website [[http://www.frontbase.com]] for details.
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3 A first experience with FrontBase, WO 5.3.1 and MacOSX 10.4.6
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5 Make sure you have the FrontBase jdbc connector accessible from your WebObjects applications. I placed mine in /Library/Java/Extensions/
6 Make sure that the FrontBasePlugIn.framework is located in /Library/Java/Frameworks
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
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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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12 **Migration from MySQL**
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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
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18 DATETIME -> TIMESTAMP
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20 INT -> INTEGER
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22 MEDIUMBLOB -> BLOB