SITools2 Metacatalog

Description

The SITools2 metacatalog is a web server used to harvest earth observation catalogs (CSW and Opensearch) and to provide a fast search engine on all the data harvested.

It is based on top of the SITools2 framework

SITools2 github page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/sitools2/

For more information on SITools2 : https://github.com/SITools2/core-v2

Release notes : README.txt

Build the SITools2 Metacatalog

The metacatalog is composed of 2 parts:

• A standalone REST server which is used to harvest and index catalogs
• A SITools2 extension, which is a set of extensions to the SITools2 server

Build SITools2

Build from sources

Follow the instruction on the page https://github.com/SITools2/core-v2 to build SITools2

Build from Installer

Download the Sitools2 installer

Execute the installer

$ java -jar SITools2-<version>-install.jar

And follow the instructions

Getting the sources

$ git clone https://github.com/SITools2/Metacatalog.git metacatalog

Build the metacatalog server

Pre-build configuration

$ cd metacatalog/workspace/fr.cnes.sitools.metacatalogue.core/

Edit build.properties and change the value of the HOST property (for example HOST = new-dev)

Make a copy of conf/build/properties/build-example.properties to conf/build/properties/build-new-dev.properties

$ cp conf/build/properties/build-example.properties conf/build/properties/build-new-dev.properties

Edit the newly created file and set the ROOT_DIRECTORY property to the metacatalogue folder

Build the sources

Build the sources using ant

$ ant

Build the SITools2 extensions

$ cd ../../workspace/fr.cnes.sitools.ext.metacatalogue/

Edit build.properties and set the ROOT_DIRECTORY property to the SITools2 path (sitools2-v2) and the SITOOLS_METACATALOGUE_CORE_DIR to the metacatalog/workspace/fr.cnes.sitools.metacatalogue.core folder

Build the sources

Build the sources using ant

$ ant

Copy the generated jar

Copy the generated Jar to the extension folder of SITools2

$ cp dist/fr.cnes.sitools.ext.metacatalogue.jar ../../../sitools2-v2/workspace/fr.cnes.sitools.core/ext

Building the installer from the sources

Build jars

Build the server and extensions jars as explained above

Build the installer

$ cd metacatalog/workspace/metacatalogue-install-izpack

Edit build.properties and set the ROOT_DIRECTORY property to the SITools2 path (sitools2-v2) and the SITOOLS_METACATALOGUE_CORE_DIR to the metacatalog folder

Build the installer using ant

$ ant

Installing from the installer

$ java -jar SITools2-Metacatalogue-<version>-install.jar

Start SITools2 metacatalog

Start the metacatalog server

$ sh ./metacatalog/workspace/fr.cnes.sitools.metacatalogue.core/metacatalogue.sh start

Start the SITools2 server

$ sh ../sitools2-v2/sitools.sh start

or

$ ../sitools2-v2/workspace/fr.cnes.sitools.core/sitools start

if source is not installed on your computer.

Start the SolR server

$ cd metacatalog/Solr

$ sh ./solr start

Wait for a few seconds and stop the SolR server using ctlr+c Copy all jar from the metacatalog_specific_libs folder to the lib SolR lib folder

$ cp metacatalog_specific_libs/* solr-webapp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/