Prerequisites

1. Procure the rice-api and rice-impl JARs and all transitive dependencies using either of the following methods:
   • Download JARs and all transitive dependencies from the Kuali Rice website
   • Download ucd-rice-standalone-server WAR from Artifactory. This WAR contains all dependencies.
   • Add rice-api and rice-impl as Maven dependencies in your project.
     pom.xml

     <repositories>
         <repository>
             <id>kuali</id>
             <name>Kuali Repository</name>
     	<url>https://test.kuali.org/maven</url>
         </repository>  
     </repositories>
     
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.kuali.rice</groupId>
         <artifactId>rice-api</artifactId>
         <version>${rice-api.version}</version>               
     </dependency>	
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.kuali.rice</groupId>
         <artifactId>rice-impl</artifactId>
         <version>${rice-impl.version}</version>
         <exclusions>
             <exclusion>
                 <groupId>com.oracle</groupId>
                 <artifactId>ojdbc14</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     

     We exclude the Oracle JDBC driver since it is a commercial product and not available on any public Maven repositories.

Declaring Properties

We use a simple XML configuration to declare properties as key-value pairs. For example:

<config>
    <!-- LDAP Settings -->
    <param name="ldap.url">ldaps://ldap.ucdavis.edu</param>
    <param name="ldap.base">ou=People,dc=ucdavis,dc=edu</param>
    <param name="ldap.pool">true</param>
    <param name="ldap.user">uid=my_ldap_uid,ou=Special Users,dc=ucdavis,dc=edu</param>
    <param name="ldap.password">my_ldap_password</param>
<config>

Spring Property Configuration

Kuali Rice uses Spring's PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer to make properties available to Spring tokens.

<bean id="config" class="org.kuali.rice.core.config.spring.ConfigFactoryBean">
    <property name="configLocations">
        <list>
            <value>classpath:edu/ucdavis/myapp/config/client-config.xml</value>
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="configProperties" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
    <property name="targetObject" ref="config" />
    <property name="targetMethod" value="getProperties" />
</bean>

<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
    <property name="properties" ref="configProperties" />
</bean>

Data Source Configuration

Kuali Rice uses Java Open Transaction Manager, so we declare the appropriate beans.

<bean id="jotm" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JotmFactoryBean">
    <property name="defaultTimeout" value="${transaction.timeout}"/>
</bean>
	
<bean id="jtaTransactionManager" class="org.springframework.transaction.jta.JtaTransactionManager">
    <property name="transactionManager" ref="jotm"/>
    <property name="userTransaction" ref="jotm"/>
</bean>

We must declare three data sources:

1. A transactional data source where the local client application's Rice tables are located. This is required by JOTM.
   classpath:edu/ucdavis/myapp/config/application-data.xml

   <bean id="dataSource" class="org.kuali.rice.core.database.XAPoolDataSource">
       <property name="transactionManager" ref="jotm" />
       <property name="driverClassName" value="${datasource.driver.name}" />
       <property name="url" value="${datasource.url}" />
       <property name="maxSize" value="${datasource.pool.size}" />
       <property name="minSize" value="${datasource.initialSize}" />
       <property name="maxWait" value="${datasource.pool.maxWait}" />
       <property name="validationQuery" value="${datasource.pool.validationQuery}" />
       <property name="username" value="${datasource.username}" />
       <property name="password" value="${datasource.password}" />
   </bean>
   

1. A non-transactional data source pointing to those same Rice tables. This is required by Quartz.
2. A transactional data source pointing to the database of the Rice Standalone Server.