ECM3432-2020-minsky

A software engineering exercise

https://travis-ci.com/ECM3432-O/ECM3432-2020-minsky

Building

To run the backend of this application:

Run yarn main from the top level directory of the project

To run the front end of this application:

Run yarn frontend at the top level directory of this project.

• If you want to make changes to the front end, you will need to run front end first then main.

Consider also

To rebuild the Java backend.

cd minsky-one
mvn compile
mvn package
# To run in test 
mvn jetty:run

See https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/java/java-tutorial and https://maven.apache.org/install.html if Java SDK or Maven are not installed.

To install all front-end dependencies. Requires node and npm.

https://nodejs.org/en/download/

npm install -g yarn
cd minksy-gatsby
yarn install
yarn build

Linux/Mac users might need this https://docs.npmjs.com/resolving-eacces-permissions-errors-when-installing-packages-globally

Check builds

https://travis-ci.com/github/ExeterBScDTS/ECM3432-2020-minsky

To create a release

To generate a new release via Travis CI create a tag

git tag -a v0.1.x -m "v0.1.x"
git push origin v0.1.x

Runtime

The settings database is loaded at start-up. This is achieved using <load-on-startup>

Deployment

Adding the update feature created some issues.

HTTP ERROR 500 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/protocol/HttpContext
URI:	/update
STATUS:	500
MESSAGE:	java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/protocol/HttpContext
SERVLET:	update
CAUSED BY:	java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/protocol/HttpContext
CAUSED BY:	java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.http.protocol.HttpContext

This was resolved by including library jars in the war file. See pom.xml