jason51672 / fluxtream-app

Fluxtream Web Application and Core Modules

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Fluxtream is based on Spring(-MVC) 3.1, Spring Security 3.1 and JPA for the persistence. We use Jersey (JAX-WS) for exposing the REST API

This is a maven project with 5 sub-modules.

• core: mainly domain classes, persistence, services and support classes for the other modules (e.g. connectors)
• core-webapp: the web API (with Rest-WS annotations), base oauth classes and helper classes
• connectors: lots of them - but for all but the 10 connectors that are actually enabled, there is little more than basic authentication (sometimes even nothing)
• fluxtream-webapp: the web application you can see on fluxtream.com - in maintenance mode
• fluxtream-web: a new web application that we are starting to work on, based on twitter bootstrap

Build requirements

• you will need maven 3.x.x
• for interactive development, we use Eclipse Indigo with EE support (/WTP)

Build instructions

• start by running the install script in fluxtream-app's maven directory, which will install missing dependencies in your local maven repository
• run mvn install in fluxtream-app

Tips

• We use JRebel during development, which works perfectly well for this application. Since we are open source, you should be able to use jrebel "social" thus without having to pay a license

Running requirements

• Tomcat 7 or Jetty 7
• Mysql

Running the application (fluxtream-webapp)

• Replace xxx in property files under src/main/resources/samples with appropriate values (you need only provide oauth keys for the connectors you want to use, obviously); put files under src/main/resources/samples back under src/main/resources
• You need to set a global environment variable at the OS level of your system, named TARGET_ENV; use that value for the name of your environment-specific properties; i.e. if TARGET_ENV is set to 'local', create an environment-specific property file called local.properties
• The database is going to be generated for you automatically; all you need to do is set the database name, username and password in your environment-specific property file (e.g. local.properties)
• We are using MaxMind's GeoLiteCity.dat database to map IP addresses to an approximate geolocation; you need to specify that file's location in your environment-specific property file, too (e.g. local.properties)
• Inside TOMCAT_ROOT / JETTY_ROOT there is a webapps/ directory; either drop the fluxtream-webapp/target/ROOT.war there or, or create a symbolic version there pointing to fluxtream-webapp/target/ROOT
• Run tomcat: under TOMCAT_ROOT/bin, do ./startup.sh or ./catalina.sh start
• Do the following only once: when the welcome (/login) screen has appeared it means the application is fully initialized and so should the mysql database; it is now time to import the cities1000.sql at the root of the fluxtream-app project. A simple way to do this is using the command-line: mysql -u username -ppassword flx <cities1000.sql
• During development, and if you want to use JRebel (you should), create a symbolic link to the target/ROOT directory of the webapp module in Tomcat's or Jetty's webapps/ directory
• Set some Java options for Tomcat to run happily (bin/catalina.sh) export JAVA_OPTS="-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms256m -Xmx2048m -Djavax.servlet.request.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 $JAVA_OPTS"

Copyright and license

Copyright 2011-2012 The BodyTrack Team @ CMU CREATE Lab & Candide Kemmler

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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