Requirements 

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• • Extract zip files in flat structure using unzip -j (works on Windows and UNIX)
    • cd <tomcat lib folder>
    • unzip -j <path to temp folder>/adf-essentials.zip
    • unzip -j <path to temp folder>/adf-essentials-client-ear.zip
  • You should see a large number of jars now in the tomcat/lib folder.
• Download the following jars and place them in tomcat/lib as well please.
  • jta-1.1.jar
  • jackson-core-lgpl-1.9.13
  • jersey-bundle-1.18.jar
  • asm-3.3.1.jar
  • mail-1.4.7.jar
  • Oracle JDBC driver matching your version of Java and database.  You can download the drivers from the Oracle Technology Network site.
    • Oracle 11g drivers
    • Oracle 12c drivers
• FDLogFormatter.jar is found in the zip file with the FlexDeploy war. Please copy that file into the tomcat/lib folder as well.

Configure

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context.xml

• Open context.xml for editing. It is located in the conf folder where you extracted Tomcat.
• Add the following text, changing <password for fd_admin> to the actual password, and if necessary, changing your jdbc url as well.

<!-- Prevent unnecessary warnings in the log.                                   -->
<JarScanner scanManifest="false"/>


<!-- Database Connection for the FlexDeploy Application                                   -->
<Resource name="jdbc/flexdbDS" auth="Container" type="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSource" factory="oracle.jdbc.pool.OracleDataSourceFactory"              
url="jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:xe" user="fd_admin" password="put password for fd_admin" maxActive="100" maxIdle="10" maxWait="60" validationQuery="select 1 from dual" testOnBorrow="true"/>

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