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1. About This Service

The Fedora OAI Provider Service is part of the Fedora Service Framework and offers a vast improvement over the previous, simple OAI provider that the Fedora Repository used in previous versions. The new provider is based on PROAI, an open source caching, polling OAI provider. It has the following features:

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See the Configuration section for more detail on using these new capabilities.

2. Installation

To install the service:

1. Make sure you have a suitable database installed (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or McKoi) and a database user account that can create tables in the database.
   

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1. Deploy the oaiprovider.war file into your servlet container.
   
2. Configure the OAI Provider as described in the Configuration section below.
   
3. Re-start the Web application (this is often done by restarting the servlet container itself).

3. Demonstration and Test Setup

The source distribution of the OAI Provider service includes several test Fedora digital objects. You can use these objects and the default proai.properties configuration file to quickly understand how the service works.

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Note that the poll frequency is ten minutes by default - this can be configured to be more or less frequent by changing the proai.driverPollSeconds property in the proai.properties file.

4. Configuration

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configuration configuration

Please consult the Configuration Reference for a complete list of proai.properties configuration options and what they do.

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