Getting started with Portofino 5
First, let's ensure that Java 8+ (JRE or JDK) is installed on our system by typing on a system command prompt:
java -version
We should get back something along the lines of:
java version "1.8.0_171"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_171-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.171-b11, mixed mode)
Note that Java 8 is the minimum supported release, but it's quite old, and the long-term supported Java 11 is recommended.
First, let's download it from SourceForge.
We should have downloaded a file named portofino-5.0.3.zip. Note that 5.0.3 is the latest version at the time of writing, but a new version might be available now. Let's simply extract the archive to a place of our choice. It's better to avoid paths with spaces in them, if possible.
This is the layout of the extracted package:
It's a basic Apachet Tomcat installation with the Portofino all-in-one webapp pre-installed and JDBC drivers for major open-source database systems available.
In order to connect to certain commercial database systems such as Oracle, we need to add a JDBC driver to the lib directory of Tomcat. Each database vendor has their own drivers and licenses. If you have trouble connecting to a certain database or find that it's not supported by Portofino, please write to the mailing list.
We'll still writing this document. In the meantime, you can continue over at the classic download page from "Start Tomcat" onwards. The steps are similar.