Flex - LiveCycle Data Service installation and configuration(Windows)

I am going to install LiveCycle Data Service(LCDS) to test RemoteObject in Flex. The LCDS I install is lcds3.1 Windows version.  

1.Install LCDS ES as following:

Step1. Click Next.

 Step2. Click agreement and Next.

Step3. You can skip inputing serial number. Click Next.

Step4.Choose select installation folder and click Next.

  

 Step5. If you choose 'tomcat' option, Tomcat6.x will be installed under the lcds install directory.

 Step6.Click Install.

 Step7. Installation in progress. Wait upto next screen.

 Step8.Read message and click Done.

 

 Step9. Installation completion

 You can browese the structure of lcds directory like below: You can see the tocamt folder installed.

2. Setup LCDS

To run tomcat server, set Windows environment variable 'CATALINA_HOME' .

LCDS_HOME:  the directory lcds installed

CATALINA_HOME: %LCDS_HOME%tomcat. the directory tomcat installed (in my case, c:\lcds\tomcat)

3. Run tomcat running %CATALINA_HOME%\bin\startup.bat.

After starting Tomcat, go to http://localhost:8400/lcds  and check if error occursor not.

if you saw the screen like ahead, it says that LCDS installed successfully.

4. If you want to change the port for connection, open %CATALINA_HOME%\conf\server.xml and edit below and restart server.

<Connector port="8400" protocol="HTTP/1.1"

                 connectionTimeout="20000"

                 redirectPort="9400"/>

5. You can see the demos connection to http://localhost:8400/lcds-samples .

 

5. You can see the successful screen.