Objectivity/DB Basics Tutorial

This tutorial describes basic Objectivity/DB concepts and gives a guided tour of an existing federated database, as displayed by Objectivity/Assist.

■	You have completely installed Objectivity/DB

■	You have copied your Objectivity license into a file called oolicense.txt in your Objectivity/DB installation folder or directory:

installDir/oolicense.txt

You can install the Objectivity/DB software in any location you want. However, the recommended installDir locations with a typical installation are as follows:


Windows	C:\Program Files\Objectivity\version
UNIX	/opt/Objectivity/version
Macintosh	/Applications/Objectivity/version

Setting up the sample data

On Windows

1.	Click Start > Programs (or All Programs) > Objectivity x.x > Objectivity Network Services. Make sure the Objectivity Lock Server is listed as "installed" and "running."

2.	Open a command prompt—for example, click Start > Programs (or All Programs) > Accessories > Command Prompt.

3.	In the command prompt, change to the installDir\samples\objydbTutorial folder, where installDir is the directory in which you installed Objectivity/DB. Make sure you have read and write permission to the objydbTutorial folder.

4.	From inside the objydbTutorial directory, enter the following commands:

ooinstallfd RentalCompany.boot

5.	Begin Lesson 1: What is Objectivity/DB?

1.	Make sure the lock server is running on your computer. At a command prompt, enter:

2.	Change to the installDir/samples directory, where installDir is the directory in which you installed Objectivity/DB.

3.	Set up the objydbTutorial directory so that you have read and write permissions using one of the following approaches:

■	Copy the objydbTutorial directory and its contents to a separate location, set the permissions, and change to that directory. For example, enter the following at a command prompt, where homeDir represents your home directory:

cp -r installDir/samples/objydbTutorial homeDir

chmod 777 homeDir/objydbTutorial

chmod 777 homeDir/objydbTutorial/*

cd homeDir/objydbTutorial

■	Set the permissions on the objydbTutorial directory inside your installation hierarchy to enable you to read and write in that directory. Then change to the objydbTutorial directory. For example:

On the Macintosh platform, you can use sudo to execute the above commands with root permissions. For example:

4.	At a command prompt, enter the following commands:

ooinstallfd RentalCompany.boot

5.	Begin Lesson 1: What is Objectivity/DB?