Grouper Developers Forum

["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

Many thanks Steve, I'll incorporate your suggestions.

Gary

--On 23 August 2005 14:55 -0400 Steve Barrett 
<>
 wrote:

> 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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