WebSpeed supplies a demonstration OpenEdge database called Sports2000. You can use the Sports2000 database to run the sample applications and experiment with your first WebSpeed applications.
In a local configuration, the OpenEdge database resides on the same machine as the WebSpeed Transaction Server. The structure of a remote configuration can vary. OpenEdge Getting Started: WebSpeed Essentials shows some of the configuration possibilities. When you are developing in a client/server environment, you can connect to the database in single-user mode. When you develop WebSpeed applications in Windows with the WebSpeed Workshop, you must run the OpenEdge database in a multi-user mode. In the WebSpeed Workshop development environment, several agents must connect to the database simultaneously: one for OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer, another for the WebSpeed WebTools, and one for the AppBuilder.
See the chapter on startup in OpenEdge Data Management: Database Administration for more information on running the OpenEdge database server and the parameters that you can specify.
You provide the information that an agent needs to connect to a database when you configure a WebSpeed Transaction Server and specify the agent options for its pool of agents. The WebSpeed agent is an ABL client running in batch mode and can accept nearly all the startup parameters a standard client can.
The following is a sample srvrStartupParam setting in ubroker.properties for the sample Transaction Server, wsbroker1, running in Windows:
Note: The srvrStartupParam property is a dynamic property. Any changes to this property only affects new agents started after the value changes because the change affects how the agent is started. Existing (running) brokers and agents are not updated with the new value.
WebSpeed provides many parameters that allow you to control connections to the database and make adjustments to increase performance. These include parameters for controlling record-buffer size, cursor size, and read-only access. In addition to database connection parameters, WebSpeed provides session parameters that allow you to control the conditions under which it compiles your r-code and Web objects and how to handle code page issues. See OpenEdge Deployment: Startup Command and Parameter Reference for details on session parameters.
