Configuring Bedework

Introduction

Preparing Bedework for production involves copying configuration files, modifying them for your site, and building Bedework.  Bedework uses ant for the build and deploy process and a number of property files are used to control that process.  

The steps are as follows:

1. Copy the entire <quickstart>/bedework/config/bwbuild directory ... most typically to the home directory of the user building the system.
2. Copy an appropriate configuration directory for your use, e.g. copy bwbuild/jboss-postgresql to bwbuild/myconfig.
3. Edit the -ds.xml file for each database.  There are five datasource files - one for each database.  Set the <connection-url>, <user-name>, and <password> in each file.
4. Add any overrides to bwbuild/myconfig/cal.properties -- copy in text from bwbuild/.defaults/cal.properties as needed (but don't overwrite the org.bedework.global.hibernate.dialect property).
5. Copy bwbuild/.defaults/cal.options.xml to bwbuild/myconfig/cal.options.xml; set appropriate values for <tzid> and <systemid>

The pages that follow explain these steps.