About the Studio Installation Process

You install Studio using one of the available installation options. For production environments, you must change the default Studio database. You may also need to update the default data source.

Available options for installing Studio

The available options for installing Studio are:

Studio Tomcat bundle for Windows. This is based on Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6. See Installing Studio Using the Tomcat Bundle for Windows.
Studio Tomcat bundle for Linux. This is based on Tomcat 6 and Java 1.6. See Installing Studio Using the Tomcat Bundle for Linux.
Studio as a standalone application on a Tomcat application server. See Installing Studio on Tomcat 6.0.
Studio as a standalone application on WebSphere Application Server 7. WebSphere can be used on both Linux and Windows. Installing Studio on WebSphere Application Server Version 7.
Studio as a standalone application on Oracle WebLogic Server 11g. WebLogic can be used on both Linux and Windows. Installing Studio on Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 (10.3.5).

Note on changing the default Studio database

The installation instructions deploy Studio using the default embedded Hypersonic database, which is not intended for production use.

In production, you must deploy using an alternate database. For more information about this process, see Changing the Database Used to Store Studio Application Data.

Briefly, to deploy an alternate database, you modify the portal-ext.properties file to specify the appropriate JDBC connection information for the desired database.

Note on maintaining the Endeca Theme

To start up, Studio requires the Endeca Theme. Even if you do not intend to use the Endeca Theme in production, you should not uninstall the Endeca Theme (endeca-theme-<version>.war) from the endeca-portal\deploy directory.

Note on configuring the default data source

The data sources in your Studio application must always include a default data source. This data source is automatically assigned to all data-source-backed components when they are initially added to a page.

When you install a new instance of Studio, it creates a placeholder default data source. For details on configuring this data source to point to your server, see Updating the default data source to point to your Endeca Server.