Configuring database connectivity

User feedback has indicated that the DBConnectionInfo configuration element could use some documentation. DBConnectionInfo is particularly inscrutable, compared with other XML plan file elements, because it uses "constructor-arg"s that are referenced by index, instead of some type of descriptive property name. The user sees "<constructor-arg index="0"" and has no idea what that means. So I’ll detail the elements right here:

dbConnectionInfo.oracle.xml

<bean id="connectionInfo" class="org.diffkit.db.DKDBConnectionInfo">
  <constructor-arg index="0" value="oracle" />  
  <constructor-arg index="1" value="ORACLE" />  
  <constructor-arg index="2" value="XE" />      
  <constructor-arg index="3" value="10.0.1.11" />       
  <constructor-arg index="4" value="1521" />    
  <constructor-arg index="5" value="diffkit" /> 
  <constructor-arg index="6" value="diffkit" /> 
</bean>

	Your name for this ConnectionInfo element. You can select an abitrary name, and it has no relationship with any real DB construct. This name is merely for presentation-- it will appear in the logs and some types of reports.
	The "Flavor" of connection. Can be any one of: H2, MYSQL, ORACLE, DB2, SQLSERVER, POSTGRES. These correspond to the constants in the Java enum org.diffkit.db.DKDBFlavor.
	The database name. This is what the vendor refers to as the database name.
	The hostname. Can also be an ip address.
	The port.
	The DB username you want to log in as.
	The DB password for username in 6.

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For Java programmers

DiffKit is configured using the "core" Spring framework. The above <bean></bean> XML element simply plugs the constructor-args into the longest Constructor of the org.diffkit.db.DKDBConnectionInfo class.