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Nova Orchestra comes in two distributions:
Tomcat distribution: Orchestra is embedded in a web application deployed in tomcat container.
Felix OSGI distribution: Orchestra is embedded in an OSGI bundle deployed in felix OSGI platform.
Unzip the orchestra-axis distribution package.
>unzip orchestra-tomcat-4.0.11.zip
A new directory orchestra-tomcat-4.0.11
will be
created. It contains an ant file to install and start Orchestra.
Remark : Nova Orchestra runs in Apache Tomcat servlet container. Tomcat 5.5.23 is delivered with the Orchestra Package.
To install Orchestra, go to orchestra directory and launch the install by running ant:
>cd orchestra-tomcat-4.0.11 >ant install
The install script installs Tomcat and Nova Orchestra. The default installation activates the persistence using the H2 Database.
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The default configuration of Nova Orchestra uses the Database
persistence service and the HSQL Database. Nova Orchestra has also been
tested with Oracle, MySQL and Postgres database system. To change to mysql, postgres or
Oracle, you need to put the corresponding JDBC driver in the directory
catalina_base/webapps/orchestra/WEB-INF/lib
and
modify the hibernate.properties
file
(see Section 4.2.4.1, “Database Access Configuration”)
Hereafter is detailled the structure of Orchestra installation. The installation directory contains the following structure :
README
build.xml
install.xml
Licence.txt
catalina_base/
catalina_home/
conf/
doc/
examples/
lib/
Let's present those items :
README
This file gives the basic information related to Nova Orchestra
build.xml
This file is an ant file that provides tasks to install and
use Nova Orchestra. Just typing ant
will result giving
you the usage.
install.xml
This file is an ant file that is called when you run ant
install
(no need to specify the use of this file)
License.txt
The license of Nova Orchestra. All of Nova Orchestra is available under the LGPL license.
conf/
This directory contains all the configuration files of Nova Orchestra.
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catalina_base/ & catalina_home/
Those directories are the installation and configuration directories of Tomcat
doc/
This directory contains the documentation of Nova Orchestra. It contains :
userGuide.pdf
For PDF documentation
html/userGuide.html
For HTML documentation in a single page
html/userGuide/userGuide.html
For HTML documentation in different pages
examples/
This directory contains the examples provided with Nova Orchestra package. See Section 5.4, “Running the examples”
lib/
This directory contains the libraries used in Nova Orchestra.