About Oracle
Oracle is a commercial database available from http://www.oracle.com.
The Oracle FAQ is available from http://www.orafaq.com.
Obtaining a Driver
A Oracle JDBC driver is also available through http://www.oracle.com. Versions for Oracle 8i and Oracle 9i are available. The driver downloads as a single "zip" file (for example, classes12.zip). The file should be stored in a directory where it will be accessible from the uPortal build environment (for example /usr/local/java/oracle/lib/classes12.zip)
See Issues section about possible issues using this driver.
Properties Configuration
The uPortal build.properties will need to be modifed. Find the property called jdbcDriver and change it to point to the Oracle zip/jar file, for example:
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<!-- JDBC Properties -->
<driver>oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</driver>
<url>jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:uportal</url>
<logonid>test</logonid>
<logonpassword>mypass</logonpassword>,
<uidquery>SELECT FIRST_NAME||' '||LAST_NAME AS FIRST_LAST,
FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, EMAIL FROM UP_PERSON_DIR WHERE USER_NAME=?></uidquery>
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Loading the Database
Loading the database requires a couple of steps
- Create the database: Refer to the Oracle database documentation for instructions regarding how to create an Oracle database instances. The database name (or in this case, the Oracle SID), port number, and driver information must reflect what was defined in the rdbm.properties file
- Create the tables and populate the database: From the uPortal build directory, run "ant db" to execute the ant target which loads the database. The ant target uses the Dbloader tool.
Additional Notes
Issues and Known Bugs
Some people have encountered problems with the Oracle JDBC driver with certain web application environments if the classes zip file is used as-is with the .zip file extension. Simply renaming the file to a .jar file seems to fix the problem. Alternatively, unzipping the classes file into a directory structure, then using the jar command to repackage the classes into a jar file works as well.