Administrator’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Preface Introducing FileMaker Pro 5.5 Unlimited
- Chapter 1 Installing the FileMaker Web Server Connector
- Chapter 2 Administering the Web Server Connector
- Chapter 3 Publishing your database on the Web
- Types of web publishing
- Using the FileMakerPro Web Companion
- Creating a custom home page
- Creating a custom home page for Instant Web Publishing
- Creating a custom web site using a database layout
- Web Companion support for Internet mediatypes
- Monitoring your site
- Exporting data to a static HTML page
- Testing your site without a networkconnection
- Opening password-protected databasesremotely
- Chapter 4 Custom web publishing using CDML
- About the CDML examples
- General steps for custom web publishing using CDML
- About CDML format files
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests using CDML
- Using the CDML Tool and templates
- Modified CDML tags
- About the CDML Reference database
- Creating error messages
- Using an encoding parameter with a CDML replacement tag
- Planning your web site
- Chapter 5 Using FileMakerPro XML to deliver your data
- About the XML examples
- General process for custom web publishing using XML
- Generating an XML document
- Using the FMPDSORESULT grammar
- Using the FileMakerPro Extended XMLgrammars
- About UTF-8 encoded data
- Generating FileMakerPro CGI requests for an XML document
- Using style sheets with your XMLdocument
- Comparing CSS, XSLT, and JavaScript
- Looking at the XML Inventory example
- Chapter 6 Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data
- About the JDBC examples
- About JDBC
- Using the FileMaker JDBC Driver
- SQL supported by the FileMaker JDBCDriver
- FileMakerPro support for Unicodecharacters
- About the FileMaker JDBC Driver interfaces and extensions
- Example 1: Looking at the FileMakerPro Explorer application
- Example 2: Creating the JBuilder Inventoryapplication
- Example 3: Creating the Visual Cafe Inventory application
- Using the FileMaker Java classes
- Appendix A Valid names used in CGI requests for FileMaker XML data
- Generating a –find, –findall, or –findany request
- Generating a –view request
- Generating a –new request
- Generating an –edit request
- Generating a –delete request
- Generating a –dbnames request
- Generating a –layoutnames request
- Generating a –scriptnames request
- Generating a –dbopen request
- Generating a –dbclose request
- Specifying parameters for the request
- –db (Database)
- –lay (Layout)
- –format (Format)
- –recid (Record ID)
- –modid (Modification ID)
- –lop (Logical operator)
- –op (Comparison operator)
- –max (Maximum records)
- –skip (Skip records)
- –sortfield (Sort field)
- –sortorder (Sort order)
- –script (Script)
- –script.prefind (Script before Find)
- –script.presort (Script before Sort)
- –styletype (Style type)
- –stylehref (Style href)
- –password (Database password)
- field name (Name of specific field)
- Appendix B FileMaker Pro values for error codes
- Appendix C Enabling the FileMaker Pro Web Companion in MacOS X
- Index
Using Java and JDBC to deliver your data 6-11
Example 2: Creating the JBuilder
Inventory application
This example demonstrates how to build a Java front end to a FileMaker
database using the development tool, JBuilder 3.0 Professional for
Windows and the FileMaker JDBC Driver. This example uses a
modified version of the Asset Management.fp5 database that ships with
FileMaker Pro. The following steps are for creating a Java application
that accesses the database, renamed Inventory.fp5.
Install the example and FileMaker JDBC Driver
If necessary, install the JBuilder folder of example files and the
FileMaker JDBC Driver.
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > JDBC Examples > JBuilder
3.0 Professional
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > Fmpjdbc12.jar
The JBuilder 3.0 Professional example folder contains the database
file used in this example and all of the completed files generated by
the JBuilder wizard for the application.
Set up JBuilder to use the FileMaker JDBC Driver
1. In a text editor (such as Notepad), open the Jbuilder.ini file from
the bin folder inside the JBuilder 3.0 Professional application folder.
(Please make a backup copy of this file before proceeding with these
instructions.)
2. In the [Java_VM_Properties] section, add the path of the
Fmpjdbc12.jar file to the end of the Djava.class.path line.
For instructions on installing the FileMaker JDBC driver into the
JBuilder environment, see “Installing and setting up JBuilder for
database applications” in the online JBuilder Help or go to
www.borland.com/devsupport/jbuilder/.
Open and share the Inventory.fp5 database
1. In FileMaker Pro, open the Inventory.fp5 file in the JBuilder 3.0
Professional folder:
FMWSC and Tools > FileMaker JDBC Driver > JDBC Examples > JBuilder
3.0 Professional > Inventory.fp5
2. Choose File menu > Sharing, verify that Web Companion is selected,
and click OK to share the database on the Web.
For information about setting up the Web Companion so that it’s
already selected in this dialog box, see “Enabling the Web
Companion” on page 3-3.
Start a new JBuilder project
1. Start JBuilder 3.0 Professional for Windows.
2. In JBuilder, choose File menu > New Project.
3. In the dialog box, specify the name and location for the project file
(JBuilder Inventory).
4. Choose Project menu > Properties.
5. Click Libraries in the Properties dialog box.