Getting started: Installing the Requea Platform on your machine
Install the Database server
Requea supports several databases:
mySQL 5.0 and above (5.1 and above recommended)
Oracle 10g and above
Microsoft SQL server 2005 and above
For the purpose of this small tutorial , we recommend that you install mysql on your environment if not already done : MySQL Install
Download the Requea dysoweb Platform
Dysoweb is a small OSGi platform created by Requea to build and compose modular Web applications.
Follow these instructions:
- Download and install download dysoweb on OW2 forge 1.0.19 or greater. Get the tomcat version (the tar version if your platform is Unix, Solaris, AIX or Mac OS X, and the .zip version if you are a Windows user)
- Unzip or untar the dysoweb-tomcat archive on a directory on your hard drive
- Make sure that you do not have already a tomcat instance running or any program using the port 8080.
- launch tomcat from a command prompt or shell:
on Unix:
on Windows:
bin\catalina.bat run
- open your favorite browser: