Database

By default, Flowable Engage is configured to run with a built-in H2 database located in a folder flowable-db in your home directory. On Unix or macOS this is ~/flowable-db. If you want to change the location of the H2 database then add the following line (and change flowable-db to your preference) to the application.properties created previously in the lib directory:

spring.datasource.url=jdbc:h2:~/flowable-db/db;AUTO_SERVER=TRUE;AUTO_SERVER_PORT=9091;DB_CLOSE_DELAY=-1

The Flowable Engage application is a Spring Boot 2.1 application and can be configured in the standard Spring Boot fashion. This means that the database can be configured by setting the following properties in the application.properties file created previously:

spring.datasource.driver-class-name=<jdbc driver>
spring.datasource.url=<jdbc url>
spring.datasource.username=<username>
spring.datasource.password=<password>

Here are example JDBC URLs for common databases:

  • MySQL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/flowable

  • PostgreSQL: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/flowable

  • Oracle: jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:XE

  • MSSQL: jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433;database=flowable

Flowable Engage does not ship any JDBC drivers other than one for the H2 database. Therefore, you will need to download the appropriate JDBC driver and copy it to the Tomcat’s lib folder before starting Tomcat.

Example for setting up PostgreSQL

  1. Download and install PostgreSQL from https://www.postgresql.org/download/.

  2. Copy the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL (from https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html) to the lib directory of the Tomcat instance.

  3. Connect with psql and create a user and a database:

     CREATE ROLE flowable WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'flowable';
 CREATE DATABASE flowable;
 GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE flowable TO flowable;

  4. Add the JDBC URL, driver, username and password of the schema you just created to the application.properties file in the lib folder of your Tomcat installation.

spring.datasource.driver-class-name=org.postgresql.Driver
spring.datasource.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/flowable
spring.datasource.username=flowable
spring.datasource.password=flowable