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.