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Installation requirements

The Baan Connector consists of the following objects:

Object Language Location
BCSL - Business Connector Slave Listener C $BSE/ometa/BCSL
BCS_BAAN - Business Connector Slave interface program for Baan C $BSE/ometa/BCS_BAAN
BaanInterface.o Baan 3GL $BSE/ometa/BaanInterface

There is also a configuration file for the Baan Connector:

Config file Configuration Location
BCSL-config.txt
  • bcslUser: Baan user who starts BCSL
  • BCSL_PortNr: Port number for communication with Business Connector
  • OldLogFiles: tmp files older then this number of days will be deleted when BCSL is started
  • ObjDir: Object Directory, usually $BSE/ometa
  • LogDir: Log Directory, usually $BSE/ometa
  • BseDir: $BSE Directory
  • TmpDir: Temporary Directory, usually $BSE/tmp
 $BSE/ometa/BCSL
Important

The Ometa Framework server should be able to communicate with the BaaN server on the TCP port defined in BCSL_PortNr (2002 by default).

Connector Requirements

For the Baan Connector, there are a number of scripts used for starting and stopping BCSL:

Script Actions Location
start_bcsl_scr
  • Remove old tmp files (via script remove_tmp_files)
  • Rename log files to log.save
  • Start bcsl
 $BSE/ometa/BCSL
stop_bcsl_scr
  • Stop bcsl
  • Clean open message queues (via script remove_msgqs)
 $BSE/ometa/BCSL
start_BCSL
  • Execute start_bcsl_scr
 $BSE/ometa/BCSL
stop_BCSL
  • Execute stop_bcsl_scr
 $BSE/ometa/BCSL
bcsl.mnu
  • This is a menu to start and stop the listener, and to get information about running processes
 $BSE/ometa/BCSL

Multiple package combinations

In case of multiple package combinations within one BSE environment, a subdirectory must be created in $BSE/ometa/PackComb for each package combination that will be used in the Ometa Business Connector. This subdirectory for each package combination consists again of the subdirectories BCSL, BCS_BAAN and BaanInterface. When setting up these directories, only the script bcsl.mnu and the config file for BCSL must be placed in the BCSL-directory. So the objects of the Baan Connector and the actual start and stop scripts (start_bcsl_scr and stop_bcsl_scr) remain in the subdirectories of $BSE/ometa, and are used for each package combination.