sqlREST Users Guide

Installation

First install a Java runtime or SDK. We recommend using Version 1.4.1 or higher.
Install a Servlet Container. Tomcat 4.1.X for example.
Copy the sqlrest directory inside the webapps directory to the webapps directory of your servlet engine.
Start the servlet engine and point your browser at http://localhost:8080/sqlrest, if your Servlet engine is running at port 8080.

Using a different database

The JDBC connection is configured in the sqlrestconf.xml. You can find sqlrestconf.xml inside the WEB-INF directory. Look at:

sqlrest-XXX\webapps\sqlrest\WEB-INF\sqlrestconf.xml

To configure the driver, enter the right values for your database. The snippet shows a configuration for a hypersonic database in server mode.

<jdbc-driver-class>org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver</jdbc-driver-class>
<database-url>jdbc:hsqldb:hsql://localhost</database-url>
<user>sa</user>
<password></password>

MS SQL Server

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Examples

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Further reading

Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
The dissertation from Thomas Roy Fielding

RESTwiki
WikiWiki Web dedicated to REST

RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax

REST Web Services - Eine Einführung
German introduction in REpresentational State Transfer