Grouper Developers Forum

[Steve Barrett <>]

Some notes about the QS documentation at:

 http://portal.bris.ac.uk/grouper-ui-docs/README.html


Preparing Tomcat
- No real comments.  Maybe a link directly into the Jakarta project so TC can 
be easily found and downloaded.

Starting HSQLDB
- works as advertised but I really think that you should bundle the HSQL 
admin app in the QS.  From experience I can tell you that after a few ctl-c’s 
to stop the HSQL DB it’s data becomes corrupt forcing you to start the DB 
support process from scratch.  If you had data in the DB which you are 
relying on for demonstration purposes this can be a real pain (and it was :)

Building the UI
- again, fairly straignforward but needs links to pick-up ant.  I happened to 
copy it from a local uPortal QS directory I had (I install ant per project).
- Those unfamiliar with ant are not going to realize that they need the 
Catalina-ant.jar in the classpath for this to work.
- “Ant ui” produces an error; “ant help” gives you the menu that the 
documentation speaks of: I read the build.xml to determine this
- I could not get a deploy to work even thought I correctly set the 
deploy.home (and I’m the worst ant user you have ever seen so don’t take my 
word for it)


** I did not get to these area, sorry.
The Demo Database
Customising the UI


-----Original Message-----

> Date: Tue Aug 23 08:14:46 EDT 2005
> From: "GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" 
> <>
> Subject: [grouper-dev] UI Documentation
> To: 
> 
>
> I have added my current documentation for the Grouper UI at
> <http://portal.bris.ac.uk/grouper-ui-docs/README.html>. This page refers to
> the QuickStart which can be obtained from
> <https://www.bris.ac.uk/fluff/u/isgwb/uRjVzksRtxwwecy9Tu_cmAfn/> - until
> Friday.
> 
> I would be interested in any feedback - particularly anything which is:
> 
> 1) Plain wrong
> 2) Unintelligible
> 3) Missing (bad links or just lack of content on a topic which would help)
> 4) Would benefit from examples
> 
> We might want to think about how the API docs, UI docs and Subject docs are
> linked.
> 
> Documentation will be a topic for the conference call...
> 
> Gary
> 
> ----------------------
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
> 
>



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