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Description
cayenne-petstore is a classic Petstore Java application implemented with Cayenne and Struts. By default application uses embedded Apache Derby database.
 | The current version is a quick port from iBatis JPetstore-5.0 application. In its current reincarnation the application works but is not very polished. We demonstrated that porting to Cayenne is easy, even given the unfriendly DB design, however it definitely needs a rewrite and DB redesign before we can call it Cayenne Best Practices Demo. |
Trying Out
Download full Eclipse project or just the war file and drop the war in your favorite web container (in the full download war file is located under cayenne-petstore/dist directory).
Note that by default Derby (db engine used by cayenne-petstore) will attempt to create a database in the JVM java.io.tmpdir (whatever that is from the web container perspective; Tomcat puts the database in $CATALINA_HOME/temp/). If you want a different location, unpack the war file and edit WEB-INF/classes/derby.properties setting derby.system.home to an absolute path.
If you want a different database alltogether, open "WEB-INF/cayenne.xml" file in CayenneModeler and do the needed changes (of course you can do them by hand as well).
Inspecting Source Code
Petstore is a valid Eclispe project, so simply import it in Eclipse.