Web-opinion-visualiser

Cathal Butler | G00346889 | Final Year Software Development

A multithreaded AI search application that can generate a word cloud from the top 20 words associated with an internet search term.

Environment Setups

Environment setup can be done in two ways, either install Tomcat or use a Docker container with tomcat.

Building Jar

Must use Java 8
Compile Java classes with needed Jar inside./web/WEB-INF/lib set in the classpath:

• First cd into the classes folder: cd web/WEB-INF/classes
• Then run compile the classes and use find and grep to location .java files: javac -cp ".:../lib/*" $(find ./* | grep .java)
• Finally, create the jar by running: jar -cf ../wcloud.war *

How to run with Docker

docker run -p 8888:8080

• To mount the volume with the wcloud.war amend the command with the path were you downloaded the .war file too -v [download location]/wcloud.war:/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/wcloud.war
• Container name: tomcat:9.0.30-jdk8-openjdk

Navigate to localhost:8888/wcloud

Development & Testing

This project was developed on my own personal laptop running

• OS: Manjaro Linux
• Kernel: 5.5.15
• Java 8
• Tomcat 9
• IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3.4 (Ultimate Edition)
  • Build #IU-193.6911.18, built on March 17, 2020
• Docker: 19.03.5

References:

• John Healy - Lecture of the module. Online tutorial videos and lecture content.
• https://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~shanir/concurrent-data-structures.pdf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySN5Wnu88nE
• https://www.baeldung.com/java-runnable-callable
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21771566/calculating-frequency-of-each-word-in-a-sentence-in-java
• https://www.logicbig.com/how-to/code-snippets/jcode-java-8-streams-collectors-groupingby.html
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/stream-in-java/