Need help getting started

[Jean-François Veillette]

Can you provide a samble ant build file that we can start from. Something that would do the major tasks, based on some samble jdbc url.

I'm not an ant user, so if there is anything special needed to help me started, that would be nice.

Here are my needs, it look like your tools would fit the bill, le me know if you see any different.
It's a school library context.
I have a production server, inside the school, where books related tables are mostly read-only because teachers barely have the time to add books to the database themself.
I have a public server, outside the school, where parents freely add books informations to the database.
From time to time, I have to update the school bd with the public bd, but I have to take care of the changes made to the production bd.
It's kind of a 3-way merge for bd.

Thanks !

[Sergey Churikov]

Hi!

I have two questions:
1. I'm so sorry but what does "samble" means? Is it "sample" or ...?
2. Do you know what the database is used: Oracle, MySQL etc?

Regards
Sergey

[Sergey Churikov]

Ok, I promise, I'll prepare "getting started" description but I can't say when it will be ready.

Now I can suggest following:
1. to get ANT s/w from http://ant.apache.org/
2. on this site you can find installation guide (see http://ant.apache.org/manual/index.html)
3. sample scripts with export/compare/createSql tasks usage can be found:
- in source package inside src/org/chur/ant/db/jdbsynch/resources folder;
- in s/w package inside lib/jdbsync.jar!/org/chur/ant/db/jdbsynch/resources.

See export.xml and compare.xml files.