Re: [stellation-res] Firebird installation on Windows

[Jim Wright - IBM Research <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Jonathan.

I'm working on it now, and noticed a couple of things.

First,  I found a self-installing version:
Firebird-1.5.0.3233_RC1_win32_setup.exe
The install went fine, so perhaps it's not necessary to install 1.0.2 first.

Second - I couldn't find "Firebird-jca-driver 1.0.0-RC3" as such.
However, I did find "firebird-jca-jdbc-driver", 
filename  FirebirdSQL-1.0.0RC3.zip.
I assume this is what you meant.

I''ll keep you posted ---

Jim

At 06:57 PM 4/21/2003, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> First I recommend that you install Firebird 1.5 RC1. This is what I did my
> testing on and I had absolutely no problems with it. There is only one
> installation catch. The 1.5 download is not a full installation but an
> upgrade. This means that you will need to first install Firebird 1.02 which
> is a complete installation.
>
> You will also need to get the JDBC-JCA driver aka Jaybird. You can find all
> these files at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9028.
> The specific items you want are, in order on the download page:
>
> Firebird-jca-driver 1.0.0-RC3
> firebird-win32 1.5.0.3233-RC1
> firebird-win32 1.0.2-Release
>
> You should download the documentation. You will need the complete Interbase
> documentation for InterBase 6.0
> This can be accessed from the following link:
> http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=doc&id=userdoc
>
> The base download includes a set of command line administration tools. There
> are also a number of third party GUI based admin tools, both open source and
> commercial. The one I use is called IbAccess and is available from
> http://www.ibaccess.org
>
> Setup is quite simple. First install Firebird 1.0.2 by double-clicking the
> downloaded executable and following the on-screen instructions. Once this is
> done, you can immediately upgrade to 1.5 by unzipping the 1.5 zip file on
> top of the installed files. Just make sure you manually stop the Firebird
> service first.\
>
> Then unzip the JDBC driver. There are several Jar files that you will need
> to make available to Stellation in the same way as the Postgres Jar.
> Specifically, you will need firebirdjmx.jar, firebirdsql.jar,
> mini-concurrent.jar, and mini-j2ee.jar.
>
> Once everything is installed, use either command line tools or ibaccess to
> add whatever users you need. You get the master user called sysdba with a
> password of masterkey for free as part of the installation. Then create the
> Stellation database, either with ibaccess or using the technique used in the
> merge tests build.xml. Once this is done you are ready to go.
>
> All of this is from memory so I hope there are no omissions.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan
>
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