To configure and build the pow2toolkit library, follow those steps:
Create the example "toolkit" database; up to now, the distribuition supports the following rdbms:
The database data files are stored into the$POW2TOOLKIT_HOME/src/conf/db
directory.
If you plan to use an LDAP server to store / authenticate user profiles, use the
example $POW2TOOLKIT_HOME/src/conf/ldap/exampleTree.ldif file to populate
the LDAP data base.
Note: the data contained into the exampleTree.ldif file will be use by the Cactus
LDAP test suite.
| LDAP resources | |
|---|---|
| Open LDAP | OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. |
| JLDAP | The LDAP Class Libraries for Java (JLDAP) enable you to write applications to access, manage, update, and search for information stored in directories accessible using LDAPv3. |
Open the toolkit's configuration.properties file;
this file provides default example values; set them according to your environment.
To use the LDAP User authentication, set the toolkit configuration.properties
file as follow:
| section | description |
|---|---|
| LDAP support |
set the set the LDAP server connection properties and the attributes
mapping between the com.pow2.user.User class and the
LDAP inetOrgPerson class
|
| User data |
set the user_data_provider key value to ldap
|
The buid process uses Apache Maven 1.0 as build tool. Please read the getting started with Maven document to install and understand how to use it.
Edit the $POW2TOOLKIT_HOME/project.properties file and set the value of maven.repo.remote
property according to your environment. I.e.:
# specifies to the remote repositories a comma-separated list of URLs;
maven.repo.remote = file://C:/code/java/maven_repo,http://www.ibiblio.org/maven
Open a shell, enter into the $POW2TOOLKIT_HOME directory and digit:
> maven
> maven war
$POW2TOOLKIT_HOME/target/pow2toolkit.war
web application archive.
Please note pow2toolkit is currently used and tested on Tomcat 4.1.x and 5.x servlet containers. Tomcat 3 is not supported anymore.
Please read the Tomcat4 Manager App HOW-TO to understand how to manage the deployment and the lifecycle of the web applications.