Installing EBI Neutrino R1 using Oracle 10g XE

Setting up Database

The EBI Neutrino R1 Framework is database independent which means you could use it for any database that Hibernate is known to work. 

The system has two schema available one for © MySQL and the other for the Oracle database including the © Oracle XE database version.

Now create a new user with the Oracle Manager named ebineutrinodb.

Run the Configuration procedure

Running the configuration process, as the same way the user would start the EBI Neutrino R1 program.  

Navigate to the directory where you extracted EBI NeutrinoR1, you will find two start file, the ebiNeutrino.exe used for the © Microsoft Windows Operating System. The second is the startNeutrino.sh for running EBI Neutrino R1 on © UNIX systems including © Linux.

For a UNIX like, open the console and change to the directory EBINeutrino and type the following command ./startNeutrino.sh.
For © Microsoft Windows systems run the ebiNeutrino.exe.

Clicking the Yes button the Language dialog will appear

Select your language and click yes.

EBI Neutrino R1 offer as standard configuration, three translation language:  Italian, German and English.

After clicking the apply button the setup database dialog is showed and you are able to configure the connection the selected database.

This dialog offer different inputs. With the first Combobox you could select the database system. It will automatically adapt the second combobox with the database driver.

With the Textfield Host you specify the IP or the Host name of the database server; the oracle case you need also to specify the port, number for the XE version is 1521. The last two Textfields give you the possibilities to insert the User and Password.

Clicking the “Test Connection” button, this will give you a confirmation if the connection to the database server was successfully.

With the button “Generate”, which will automatically enabled if the connection to the database was successfully, store the data into a file named ebi_neutrino.properties it encrypts the connection data. 

Now the system is checking for tables in the database. If no table was found the import dialog will appear which give the possibility to start importing the standard schema to the database. 

Once the import step is finished without errors the system will create the default User and Password.

User : root

Password: ebineutrino

Finally a system is installed on your machine with an empty database and you are ready to login.