Running Terminus

You may run Terminus for an existing or a new database. When starting terminus with a new database, a message informs about the location for the newly created database.

You may run Terminus when you have installed ODABA . Terminus is platform independent and can be used on Windows, LINUX and several UNIX platforms. Terminus requires a project resource database (dictionary), which contains the concept and terminology model object type definitions.

Terminus can be called from a command line in DOS or UNIX.

.../odaba/ode90.exe ini_file [ options ]

ode90.exe is the generic GUI framework, which is called as entry point for all odaba applications. In order to call the proper application, the PROJECT option has to be set to Terminus., which is possible in the configuration or ini-file or as additional option passed on the command line.

The ini_file refers to the database location and can be provided as configuration (xml) or ini-file. Below you will find examples for an ini-file. The DATABASE option in the ODE90 section refers to the database location. In order to create a new terminology database, just replace the location by the path to the new database. When creating the database, you are requested to setup some options for the dictionary.

In order to reduce the number of required ini-files and command files, one may use the ini-file as being provided with the installatin, which refers to a symbolic database path referenced by the DBPath option. Calling Terminus any number of options can be passed preceded with a '-' sign:

ode90.exe cmd/ode.ini -PROJECT=Terminus -DBPath=projects/opa/opa.dev -TRACE=log

Using options allows running different ODABA GUI applications with only one configuration or ini-file. Instead of passing option parameters, one may also set options in a command or bat file as in the example below. In contrast to options set in command or ini-files, which must never bequoted, optins passed on the command line have to be quoted when containing spaces.

DBPath is a option, which has been defined in the ini-file for the DATABASE option in order to support dynamic path locations. Since DATABASE might be referenced in different sections of the ini-file, it is more save to refer to the more specific variable DBPath.

Details for configuring data source are described in in the WEB documentation under Reference documentation/Database references/Data source definition.

There is one Terminus Sample in the Terminus database, which contains the terminology model for the terminology model. It also includes hierarchical topics for this documentation.