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Creating your first ABL application : Connecting the OpenEdge AppServer to the OpenEdge Database
 

Connecting the OpenEdge AppServer to the OpenEdge Database

To enable your app to access OpenEdge database data, the OpenEdge AppServer must be connected to an OpenEdge database.
1. To connect the OpenEdge AppServer to the OpenEdge Database:
a. Double-click asbroker1 in the Server view.
b. In the asbroker1 tab that opens in the editor, click on the link, Open launch configuration.
This opens the Edit launch configuration properties page.
c. Go to the Database tab, and select the Show all radio button.
d. Select the Sports2000 database connection.
e. Click OK.
f. Close the asbroker1 editor.
2. To start the AppServer:
a. In the Servers view, right-click asbroker1, and click Start in the pop-up menu.
This starts the AppServer. In the Servers view, the status of the server changes to Started. If the server fails to start, check for the reason that it failed in the Console.