Starting the Server

Starting the Server
Prev	Chapter 2. Berkeley DB Server	Next

On UNIX/POSIX systems, a shell script start_server.sh is installed under the bin directory if --enable-server is specified to the build configuration. This script sets up the proper classpath and JVM options, and starts the server program.

On Windows systems, no batch script is provided because the place of the db.jar depends on the build configuration. To start a server, you need to do the following:

Copy bdb.properties and log4j.xml from lang/thrift/server to your current directory.
Include the db.jar and all jar files under lang/thrift/jars to the classpath.
Set the java.library.path JVM option to point to the directory where native Berkeley DB libraries are placed.
Run the com.sleepycat.server.BdbServer program.

For example, if the native libraries and db.jar are placed under build_windows/Win32/Release, a batch script placed under it would look like:

set THRIFT_HOME=..\..\..\lang\thrift

copy %THRIFT_HOME%\server\bdb.properties .
copy %THRIFT_HOME%\server\log4j.xml .

set CLASSPATH=.;%THRIFT_HOME%\jars\slf4j-api.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%THRIFT_HOME%\jars\slf4j-log4j12.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%THRIFT_HOME%\jars\log4j.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%THRIFT_HOME%\jars\libthrift.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%THRIFT_HOME%\jars\db_thrift_interface.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;%THRIFT_HOME%\jars\db_thrift_server.jar
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;db.jar

java -Djava.library.path=. com.sleepycat.server.BdbServer

The BdbServer supports the following options:

-v

Print the version of the server program.
-h

Print the help information of the server program.
-config-file

Specify the configuration file for the server program.
-log-config

Specify the log4j XML configuration file for the server program.