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Building my first Social Application

Mark Wallace edited this page Feb 20, 2014 · 15 revisions

Pre-requisites

  1. Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (Kepler)

  2. Apache Tomcat (7.0.50)

Clone the SocialSDK Git repository

  1. Launch Eclipse and switch to the "Git Repository Exploring" perspective

  2. Select option to "Clone a Git repository"

  3. Enter following URI: https://github.com/OpenNTF/SocialSDK.git

  4. Select Next and Next again

  5. Optional: Edit the Destination directory: \SocialSDK

  6. Select Finish

Note: This process will take ~5 mins depending on your network connection

Configure Tomcat server

  1. Open the Servers view

  2. Click the link to create a new server

  3. Create an Tomcat v7.0 Server using your locally install Apache Tomcat

  4. Open the newly create server in the Project Explorer view

  5. Edit the context.xml file and add the following lines at the bottom:

<!-- Configures the location of a sbt.proeprties file which contains the configuration proeprties for use with the Social Business Toolkit --> <Resource name="url/ibmsbt-sbtproperties" auth="Container" type="java.net.URL" factory="com.ibm.commons.runtime.naming.UrlFactory" url="sbt.properties" />