IMDB Setup

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As you probably want to set up the application and run it, some instructions for this are found here.

Contents 1 Setup your environment 2 Setup the project 3 Running the application 4 Load data into the node space 5 Suggested development environment

[edit] Setup your environment

• Make sure you have JDK 1.5+ (5+)
• Install Maven 2

No previous experience using Maven? No problem at all, you'll just have to install it and follow the instructions. We already configured everything for you.

[edit] Setup the project

• Download the application: temporary location for svn: [1]
• Make sure everything compiles:

$ mvn
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
... <lots and lots of download spam> ...
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
...
$

[edit] Running the application

• mvn jetty:run
• browse to localhost:8080/imdb
• the port number is set in pom.xml, if you want to change it
• mvn jetty:stop is used to stop the service

If you are using the Eclispe IDE m2eclipse plug-in, the run configuration for the first Maven goal would look like this:

[edit] Load data into the node space

• browse to localhost:8080/imdb/setup.html
• run the data injection from the page
• only inject the data once!

[edit] Suggested development environment

We found these tools to be useful for developing this application.

• Eclipse 3.4(Ganymede)+ (the Java EE package includes Web Tools)
• Eclipse Maven2 plugin (includes its own Maven 2)
• Spring IDE

As for OS, we have tested the application under Ubuntu, Windows Vista (doable, but not recommended!) and some other systems.

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