Installing the Exadel dVision Bundle

This version of Exadel dVision is distributed as part of a complete Tomcat 6 installation with dVision "preinstalled" as the only application inside Tomcat. The metadata and sample data for dVision are already hooked up to hSQL, a free lightweight SQL database, inside the installation. This makes it very easy to get dVision up and running quickly for initial evaluation.

Requirements for dVision

Before starting, you will need to make sure you have the following installed for working with dVision:

Java 5 for running the dVision application and Tomcat
Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, or Firefox 2 with Flash 9 installed for using the dVision application

Requirements for Tomcat

You will also need to ensure that the necessary requirements for Tomcat are satisfied before installing. There is a document called RUNNING.txt that comes with Tomcat in the main (root) directory for Tomcat. This document explains all the requirements. Make sure you have read through it.

Once common issue with Tomcat working is ensuring that the JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME environment variable is set at all. In Windows, you can quickly check this by selecting Start Menu -> Run..., typing command and then return, typing set and then return in the command window, and looking for the appropriate entry in the list. (Entering exit closes the window.)

Installing dVision

Download the ZIP file containing the bundle from exadel.com
Extract it to any folder. Let's call this folder "<ROOT>"
Go to <ROOT>\bin\
If you are a Linux user, type chmod a+x *.sh to make the Tomcat scripts executable
Run startup.bat, if you are a Windows user, or startup.sh, if you are a Linux user
To shut down dVision, shut down Tomcat by running shutdown.bat, if you are a Windows user, or shutdown.sh, if you are a Linux user

Using dVision

Launch your browser
Go to this URL (location): http://localhost:8080/
This demo version logs you in as admin without requiring any actual user login action

Limitations of the Demo Version

There is no access control (permissions, etc.).
You can create datasources that link to other databases under the Admin tab of the application, but you cannot actually use such datasources in spreadsheets.