How to Run MatchPoint Java Back-end on other platforms other than Windows

How to Run MatchPoint Java Back-end on other platforms other than Windows

A way to run MatchPoint in other platforms other that running the windows installer is to run the MatchPoint back-end as a web application on a web servers as Tomcat,

Tomcat can be installed on the IBM or Linux.

To run MatchPoint on Tomcat follow this steps:

  1. Create the folder <Tomcat installation folder>/bin/Lic
  2. Copy the the License to the <Tomcat installation folder>/bi/Lic
  3. Deploy the MatchPoint war file on the Tomcat server
  4. Configure the <Tomcat installation folder>/webapps/MatchPoint/WEB-INF/Classes/obsvr.properties file according to you Database server, MatchPoint supports MS SQL and IBM jdbc connections.

Connection string samples:

MS SQL

Environment.Default.Driver=com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
Environment.Default.DataSource=jdbc:sqlserver://<SQLServerName>:1433;user=<user>;password=<password>;databaseName=MatchPoint;

IBM

Environment.Default.Driver=com.ibm.as400.access.AS400JDBCDriver
Environment.Default.DataSource=jdbc:as400://<IBMServerName>/MPDTA;user=<user>;password=<password>;prompt=false

Once the MatchPoint WAR file is deployed you can go to:

http://<tomcatserver>/MatchPoint/MPAdmin

to check if it is running and some other information the dispatcher can provide

NOTE: depending on you tomcat configuration you may require to put the tomcat port on the URL please consider that if you get any errors.

You can download the MatchPoint War file from here:

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