Required components

The following components are required for writing Java™ API-based code:

• IBM® Product Master installation: These files must be extracted or untared to a local folder on the file system. Ensure that the following directories are available before you run a Java API-based application:

  etc/default

  Contains the API configuration files, which specify the connection parameters to the Product Master server.

  Jars

  Contains all of the Product Master and supporting JAR files that are required for connecting to the server.

  Locales

  Contains the locale-specific resources.

  Logs

  Contains the log files that are generated by the API.

• IBM or Sun JDK: Version of the JDK depends on the version of Product Master being used. JDK version to be used starts from 1.5.
• The tools.jar file from JDK is required to be present in the class path of the Java project.
• Access to a running Product Master instance is required. This instance can be a remote instance, for example, it does not need to be running on the same computer where IDE is being run to develop the application.
• Client connectivity to the database, which is being used by the Product Master instance.
• Database-specific client libraries:
  • For Oracle, ojdbc5.jar or ojdbc6.jar is required on the class path of the project.
  • For DB2®, db2jcc.jar and db2jcc_license_cu.jar are required on the class path.
• Verify the database related parameters in the db.xml file.