Connect to exist-db externally, how?

I have checked http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/exist-configuration#TOC-Modifying-the-eXist-configuration and also tried web interface http://exist-db.org/exist/apps/doc/java-admin-client.xml and I am totally lost.

I am using trial version 4.4 and would like to evaluate product.

In the file exist-conf.xml I have changed:

<default-permissions collection="0775" resource="0775" />

This page now says http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/release-notes/40#TOC-Security-of-the-built-in-eXist-database that it's protected.

So I did that also:

 
   

Then I try access from Java:
"xmldb:exist://xx.yy.fi:8080/orbeon/exist/xmlrpc"

I will have org.xmldb.api.base.XMLDBException: HTTP server returned unexpected status: Not Found

How the data is actually stored, I just want to get the XML data from all forms.

I also checked this page http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/developer-guide/processors-xml-databases. I do not get how the data is stored, which is collection data in the folder:

0000000002.log
elements.dbx
collections.dbx
dom.dbx
symbols.dbx
words.dbx
values.dbx
ngram.dbx
README.txt

It seems a lot of work to connect using java api, what is the easiest way to GET all XML documents from Orbeon? Data is in exist-db and orbeon has some REST functionality, how this should be used?

I can access collections http://xx.yy.fi:8080/orbeon/exist/rest/db/orbeon/fr/tipityy/tipi/data . Is that something that should be used or some other REST point?

<exist:result><exist:collection name="/db/orbeon/fr/tipityy/tipi/data" created="2013-12-30T15:35:03.342+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"><exist:collection name="91eac0a0fe69731f6b3682f33c9674b6bb67deb5" created="2013-12-30T15:39:55.916+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"/><exist:collection name="684f964cf6c95c08953cdef420b0eb883c836b1e" created="2013-12-31T13:54:58.488+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"/><exist:collection name="1eb1458cfcb88d03fcdb031a96a88222ba5834f3" created="2013-12-30T21:31:30.302+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"/><exist:collection name="74f8145a20a75ff7d0f7e9b1916287384f99fad5" created="2013-12-30T21:15:07.71+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"/><exist:collection name="48e4377de5551326437b081216a58a0a5256efd8" created="2013-12-30T21:15:25.794+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"/><exist:collection name="155967f17356f4efbbd16025a914d9d8c8cb2e2c" created="2013-12-30T15:35:03.342+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"/><exist:collection name="b243105d04db697304a7f9f4552ea4e478729371" created="2013-12-30T21:36:12.972+02:00" owner="guest" group="guest" permissions="rwur-ur-u"/></exist:collection></exist:result>


thanks for any help!

Hi Ripa,

First, you don't *need* to use an external eXist. If you just started working with Orbeon Forms, I'd recommend you stick to the internal eXist for now, so you can get a flavor of what the product does without spending too much time changing configuration files.

If you decide to use eXist in production, you might want to use an external eXist, and this is when the procedure you're linking to comes into play. So you'll let us know if this is really what you're trying to do, and if you're still having trouble with that setup.

Alex

Hi  Alessandro,

We are using Oracle now and it works ok. I am totally convinced about eXist altought it's quite nice XML database. To connect directly to Orbeon embedded eXist database was just too hard for me. Nor with oracle it's easy to connect. Thanks for answering!

Ripa

Hi Ripa,

Yes, eXist is a very nice database, but I am with you: despite that, most of our clients use Oracle or another relational database, for a reason or another. So I'm glad things are working for you with Oracle.

Alex