
Documentation for Crowd 1.2. Documentation for other versions of Crowd is available too.
CrowdID is a free add-on that ships with Crowd versions 1.1 and later.
By default, CrowdID in the Crowd 'Standalone' distribution is shipped preconfigured with HSQL. This is fine for evaluation purposes, but for production installations, you should connect CrowdID to an enterprise database. This also lets you take advantage of existing database backup and recovery procedures.
The following instructions will allow you to configure CrowdID to an external database:
CrowdID in the Crowd 'Standalone' distribution includes the Apache Tomcat application server and an in-memory HSQL database engine. This JNDI reference (CrowdIDDS) can be adjusted to use your custom database and driver by editing the crowd.xml deployment description.
build.properties, and run the script build.xml, as described in 4.1 Important Files. The two relevant properties in the build.properties file are:
hibernate.dialecthibernate.transaction.factory_classThese are described as follows.
hibernate.dialectBelow is a list of supported databases and their Hibernate configurations. You will need to edit the hibernate.dialect property to correspond to whichever database you are using:
RDBMS |
Hibernate SQL Dialect |
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HypersonicSQL |
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Microsoft SQL Server |
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MySQL |
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MySQL with InnoDB |
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MySQL with MyISAM |
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Oracle |
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PostgreSQL |
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hibernate.transaction.factory_classYou will need to edit the hibernate.transaction.factory_class property to correspond to whichever application server you are using:
J2EE Server |
Dialect |
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Borland ES |
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JBoss |
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JOnAS |
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JOTM |
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JRun4 |
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Orion |
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Resin |
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Weblogic |
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WebSphere |
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