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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 OpenBase Lite, 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 OpenBase Lite, Oracle and ODBC adaptors.
If you are using the preinstalled OpenBase Lite database, click "Set Path", browse to the \Apple\Local\Library\Databases\ directory, and click Open. "Movies" will now appear in the Database pop-up list. Click Login.
If you are not using OpenBase Lite, specify the connection information you provided when you created and populated the Movies database. Post-Installation Instructions provides more information.
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