Choosing an Adaptor
An adaptor is a mechanism that connects your application to a particular database server. For each type of server you use, you need a separate adaptor. WebObjects provides adaptors for Informix, Oracle, and Sybase servers. If you're working on a Windows platform, WebObjects also provides an ODBC adaptor for use with ODBC-compliant database sources.
- In the wizard panel, choose the adaptor for your database.
- Click Next.
- Complete the login panel.
- Click OK.
A login panel for the selected adaptor opens. Different databases require different login information, so each database's login panel looks different. Shown below are the login panels for the ODBC and Oracle adaptors, for use with ODBC-compliant database servers (such as Microsoft Access) and Oracle database servers, respectively.
Specify the connection information you provided when you created and populated the Movies database. Post-Installation Instructions provides more information.
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