Summary
After finishing this chapter, we should be able to correctly configure the PRD work environment. We have installed JDK and configured the JAVA_HOME
and PATH
environment variables.
We have downloaded PRD 5.0 from SourceForge.net in accordance with our operating system, and learned about the pattern of names for various packages. For example, the prd-ce-[version].tar.gz
package corresponds to the Linux-type operating systems and the prd-ce-[version].zip
package corresponds to Windows operating systems.
Next, we installed PRD, unzipping the respective package, and explained that the path where we should place the JDBC drives is [PRD_HOME]/lib/jdbc
. We also edited the [PRD_HOME]/report-designer.[sh|bat]
file in order to explain how to assign RAM to the PRD execution environment.
We explained that the reports in this book are based on the example database, Sakila DB. This database stores information about a video rental store: movies, rentals, payments, and so on.
We also explained how to...