Object Database

You can configure the central object database parameters in Jease/WEB-INF/web.xml.

Configure the database folder

The name of the database folder can be specified in two ways:

  • If the database name doesn't include a slash, the database folder will be created directly in user home (prefixed by "db4o" or "perst", see below).
  • If the database name includes a slash (java.io.File.separator), the value will be interpreted as path for the database folder.
<context-param>
 <param-name>JEASE_DATABASE_NAME</param-name>
 <param-value>/var/database/test/</param-value>
</context-param>

Please note: the specified folder contains all data, so if you want to make a backup of your CMS, simply backup the specified directory. That's it.

Configure the database engine

Jease supports the following open-source object-databases:

  • db4o (jfix.db4o.engine.PersistenceEngineDb4o)
  • Perst (jfix.db4o.engine.PersistenceEnginePerst)

db4o is the default engine. If you want to use Perst as engine, you can configure this in WEB-INF/web.xml:

<context-param>
   <param-name>
     JEASE_DATABASE_ENGINE
   </param-name>
   <param-value>
     jfix.db4o.engine.PersistenceEnginePerst
   </param-value>
</context-param>

If you want to integrate another database with Jease, you can implement the interface for jfix.db4o.engine.PersistenceEngine. Please use existing implementations as guides.

Last modified on 2011-04-24 by Maik Jablonski

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