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When the table feature is enabled the ConnectionFactory will attempt to "discover" all RDS instances available to the cluster. This discovery process is done using a naming convention. When the table feature is enabled you must provide at least one RDS instances instance that follows the expected naming convention. You will need to two pieces of information to correctly setup a database that can be auto-discovered: stack-name (org.sagebionetworks.stack.instance) and stack-intancesinstances-name (org.sagebionetworks.stack.instance). If you have setup your development environment according the developers boot strap then you should have both properties in your maven settings.xml file.
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