This page describes how to develop the imeji software

Introduction[edit]

The imeji software is developed and supported by the imeji community. If you want to participate to the project, please contact the community: mailto:imeji-community@gwdg.de.

Install Java[edit]

imeji supports java 6. Compatibility with Java 7 is not guarantee:

Download Java 6

Install Maven[edit]

imeji use Maven 2.2.1:

Download Maven

Install Eclipse[edit]

For the development, we encourage to use the Eclipse IDE for JEE developers:

Download Eclipse

Download source[edit]

The imeji code source is hosted at Github. We recommend to use the official Github client:

Clone imeji on Windows[edit]

After having installed the Github client for Windows, go on imeji Github page and click on "clone in Windows".

Import imeji in Eclipse[edit]

open Eclipse
Click on top menu "File"
Select Import
Select Maven: Existing Maven Project and click on next
Browse filesystem en select imeji directory and click on Finish

Compile imeji[edit]

Set credentials in your settings.xml of maven (for actual values, please contact [1]):

<properties>
  <jboss.install.dir>YOUR_JBOOS_PATH</jboss.install.dir>
  <escidoc.framework_access.framework.url>YOUR_CORESERVICE_URL</escidoc.framework_access.framework.url>	
  <imeji.tdb.path>YOUR_JENA_DIRECTORY</imeji.tdb.path> 
  <imeji.sysadmin.email>admin_email</imeji.sysadmin.email>
  <imeji.sysadmin.password>a_password</imeji.sysadmin.password>
  <imeji.escidoc.user>an_escidoc_user</imeji.escidoc.user>
  <imeji.escidoc.password>a_password</imeji.escidoc.password> 
  <framework.admin.username>coreservice_admin_login</framework.admin.username>
  <framework.admin.password>password</framework.admin.password>
  <imeji.email.server.smtp>YOUR_MAILSERVER</imeji.email.server.smtp>
  <imeji.email.user>mailserver_user</imeji.email.user>
  <imeji.email.password>mailserver_pwd</imeji.email.password>
  <imeji.email.auth>true/false</imeji.email.auth>
  <imeji.email.sender>sender_adress</imeji.email.sender>
</properties>

Check properties in "meta" pom.xml
- Attention: Some properties are related to the core service. If you install your own core service, you will have to adapt it. Please check the eSciDoc core service page. For problems with the core service please contact the eSciDoc developer mailing list
- For more information about the properties see the imeji properties page
If you want to use the Fledged Data Service you need to adapt the fds.properties
Compile presentation: clean install
Compile ear: clean install jboss:harddeploy
Start your server
imeji is available at http://localhost:8080/imeji/

Imeji Developer environment

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