Download and Install

Right now, Easel is only available as a checkout from SVN.

How to get started and get the example application up:

• Prerequisites: JDK 1.5.x, Hibernate 3.x, Ant 1.6.5+, MyFaces, Subversion
• Prerequisites to run example app: Tomcat 5.5.x, and some Hibernate-supported database
• Checkout from subversion:

  svn co http://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/easel/trunk/ easel
  

• Build easel.jar:

  $ cd easel
  $ ant 
  

• Create "user.build.properties" in example dir with config info

  main.jdbc.url=jdbc:postgresql://localhost/easel-example
  main.jdbc.driver=org.postgresql.Driver
  main.jdbc.username=username
  main.jdbc.password=password
  main.jdbc.driver.jar=c:/cygwin/home/Bill/lib/postgresql/pg74.216.jdbc3.jar
  hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
  
  tomcat.home=C:/cygwin/home/Bill/apache-tomcat-5.5.12
  tomcat.manager.username=tomcatuser
  tomcat.manager.password=password
  tomcat.manager.url=http://localhost:8080/manager
  

• Create db and start Tomcat
• Build example app:

  
  $ cd example
  $ ant init-db     ##  creates DB tables 
  $ ant             ## build unpacked webapp in build/jsp
  $ ant install     ## deploy WAR via manager
  

• visit http://localhost:8080/easel-example