MavenProjectServer Prerequisites

All the experimentation is based on the assumption that the reader is: a maven user, a linux user (with root acces on the server, knows a bit of Tomcat, MySQL. and apache Httpd

The prerequisites to have the MavenProjectServer up and running over a Linux OS are :

• A linux box (Mandriva 2007 - x86-64 was used during the experimentation)
• An user called MSU (Maven Server User) with its home directory located at /home/services/msu this directory will be noted as $
  Unknown macro: {server.home}

  • A set of directories inside $
  :
  • data noted as $
    Unknown macro: {server.data.home}
  • CatalinaBase noted as $
    Unknown macro: {server.tomcat.base}

    • A JDK installation (jdk1.6.0-b2 was used during the experimentation) located at $
      Unknown macro: {java.home}
      with permissions set to be usable by MSU
    • A Tomcat installation (Tomcat 5.5.20 was used during the experimentation) located at $
      Unknown macro: {tomcat.home}

      with permissions set to be run by MSU

      • A Maven 2 installation (maven 2.0.4 was used during the experimentation) located at $
        Unknown macro: {m2.home}
        with permissions set to be usable by MSU
      • A MySQL installation (MySQL 5.0 was used during the experimentation) with networking enabled
      • An HTTP server (Apache Httpd 2.2 was used during the experimentation) with mod_proxy_ajp enabled

      The java.home, tomcat.home, m2.home variables are undefined by purpose to let the reader defines its own (during the experimentation they were respectively set to /home/local/jdk1.6.0, /home/local/tomcat-5.5.20, /home/local/maven-2.0.4).

      It is supposed that the Tomcat installation is cut in half with the running evironment (in $

      ) on one side and the configuration environment (in $
    ) on the other side; Read the Tomcat distribution's RUNNING.txt file for more information.

The Connection between Tomcat and MySQL is made using mysql-connector (can be found on the mysql site). The mysql-connector-java-VERSION-bin.jar should be put in the $

/common/lib directory.

The tomcat's admin servlet should be installed (which is not in the default distribution). See the Tomcat site for more information.