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Instructions on installing and managing the Metadata are also included in the advanced installation section. This includes instructions for building the tables. A complete installation utility/installer for OpenLexicon is included in the downloads section. The installer includes a 'blank' project and the completed tutorial. You need not take a deep technology dive to have a close look at openLexicon.This installer is a self-extracting JAR. You will need a JDK version 1.5.x, to install the server and run the tutorial. To install OpenLexicon, simpley download and run the JAR. If you already have installed tomcat on your workstation, you might need to modify the startup batch. Some folks need to use an existing web-server or build their own environment. Detailed documentation on setting up an environment for OpenLexicon is in these articles. Here are some general guidelines.
OpenLexicon Uses other Open Source Software projectsTorque is used to generate java classes of Lexicon metadata objects. This enables the OpenLexicon development team to focus on the design and use of the metadata objects, rather than the implementation. This is an important feature because OpenLexicon's metadata java classes are simple data transports between the database to the Business Rules engine. OpenLexicon supports four databases at this time: Oracle and MySQL, TimesTen and SQLServer. OpenLexicon was originally developed against an Oracle database, but MySQL support has recently been added. Because OpenLexicon’s metadata design depends on triggers and views, only the 5.0 version of MySQL is supported. Apache is currently being used as the web server for the OpenLexicon Wizard. Please refer to the Links page for more information on these products. |
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