Metacat

Author: Chad Berkley

Date: 3/5/2007

Setup

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1) Make sure you have the google web toolkit installed.  You can get it from http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/.  From now on, I will refer to the google web toolkit directory as the "gwt" directory.

2) Make a symbolic link in the gwt directory so that gwt-dev.jar -> gwt-dev-xxx.jar where xxx is either "mac", "linux" or "windows".  This just makes the scripting easier to deal with.

3) Edit the KeplerClient-shell file and make sure $GWT points to your gwt installation.  Do the same for KeplerClient-compile

Building

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Run the KeplerClient-shell script.  Upon successful compilation, you should see two windows open.  One is the tomcat server shell, the other is a test browser where you will see the web page.  

Testing

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You can use the -shell file for incremental building and testing.  If you want to "clean" the project, you can use the ant build.xml file.  The build file really is not needed.

Installation/Deployment

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Once you have a working product and you want to deploy to a normal instance of Tomcat, you can first test that your code works under a normal browser by clicking the "compile/test" button on the google browser.  This will open your page in whatever your default browswer is.  Your server side code is still running on the google tomcat instance (port 8888).  If you want to deploy the servlet and client side code to another instance of Tomcat, follow the instructions in the INSTALL file.