Downloading Wookie

Wookie is designed to be downloaded using subversion; to checkout the latest code:

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/wookie/trunk

This will downloaded the latest source code to your current folder. You then need to enter:

cd PROJECT_HOME_DIRECTORY
ant

The first time you run this command all dependencies will be downloaded so you must be online and it will take some time. Subsequent builds will be much faster.

You can run Wookie in a number of different configurations, as described in the following sections.

Running Wookie in "standalone" mode

The quickest way to run Wookie is in "standalone" mode; in this mode Wookie uses a local database and embedded server. This is a good way to experiment with Wookie in development.

To run Wookie in standalone mode:

ant run

The first command will download any required libraries for Wookie. The second will start a server running on port 8080. To access it, go to http://localhost:8080/wookie

To access the administration menu (http://localhost:8080/wookie/admin) use the username 'java' and password 'java'.

If you want to start with a completely clean build then use:

ant clean-build run

If you want to clean the database use:

ant clean-db

Running Wookie with Tomcat and MySQL

The following will compile and run the server in Tomcat with a MySQL database. The database tables will be set up automatically, however you must have previously created a database called "widgetdb" with username "java" and password "java". (If you want to change the database connection settings, then you need to alter the scripts/mysql/hibernate.cfg.xml.)

First, you need to edit the "build.properties" file as follows:

• uncommenting "project.using.mysql=true"
• set "servletEngine.webapp.dir=" to the location of your tomcat webapps directory.

Then run:

ant clean-build deploy-webapp

To access the administration menu (http://localhost:8080/wookie/admin) use the username 'java' and password 'java'.

If you want to start with a completely clean build then use:

ant clean-build deploy-webapp

If you want to clean the database use:

ant clean-db

By default Wookie connects to MySQL using Hibernate and the C3P0 connection pooler.

Running Wookie with other configurations

Other configurations of Wookie can also be run; the main requirements are a servlet container and a database. The setup information for databases can be found in the /scripts directory. How these are loaded into configurations is defined in build.xml; the main requirement is to define connection details in scripts/database/hibernate.cfg.xml and to define the database setup script in scripts/database/widgetdb.sql.

The deploy-webapp task can be used to deploy Wookie to any servlet container application.