GeWorkbench Web

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geWorkbench Web

"geWorkbench Web" is a vaadin based web application and the new development of the desktop application geWorkbench.

Code repository: https://github.com/geworkbench-group/geworkbench-web

Deployment to Test Server and Production Server

• Auto_deploy_geWorkbench_web_to_afdev deploy geWorkbench web to afdev as daily cron job
• Deploy_geWorkbench_web_to_production deploy geWorkbench web to production server

Older wiki about deployments: http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/informatics/index.php/Deployment_of_geWorkbench_Web

• test deployment: on afdev
  • deployment location /ifs/data/c2b2/af_lab/cagrid/apache-tomcat-7.0.30
  • URL http://afdev.c2b2.columbia.edu:8082/geworkbench/
• production: on geworkbench.c2b2.columbia.edu
  • URL http://geworkbench.c2b2.columbia.edu/geworkbench/

When new development affects the underlying database ...

The current procedure to make such change not impact existing data, and not demand recreating all tables:

1. identify the tables that are created by the new development
2. export a SQL script to create all the tables involved
3. always keep the JPA persistence setting as 'none'
4. execute the script on the existing database

Setting up eclipse workspace, and Building with maven

• https://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/informatics/index.php/Using_Maven_With_geWorkbench_Web geWorkbench web with maven

Technologies

Vaadin

• we depend too much (persistence and authoetication) on appfoundation plugin, which is a personal project. Better use official plugins when possible.
• authentication
  • https://vaadin.com/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Authenticating+Vaadin-based+applications/pop_up
  • https://vaadin.com/book/vaadin6/-/page/rapid.auth.html
  • https://vaadin.com/old-forum/-/message_boards/view_message/2587058

Tomcat

• http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/RUNNING.txt essential information about setting up tomcat 7
• https://www.mulesoft.com/tcat/tomcat-configuration a good, concise introduction about tomcat configuration, including links to more useful stuff

JPA, ElicpseLink -> appfoundation (vaadin plugin)

• http://www.vogella.com/articles/JavaPersistenceAPI/article.html#simple_main
• http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/documentation/
• http://code.google.com/p/vaadin-appfoundation/wiki/Persistence

JavaScript

Maven

• https://vaadin.com/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Using%20Vaadin%20with%20Maven for vaadin 6
• https://vaadin.com/wiki/-/wiki/Main/Creating+a+Maven+project for vaadin 7

earlier documents

GeWorkbench-Web-Initial the initiation materials of the geWorkbench web project

geWorkbench-Web Documentation early documentation of the geWorkbench web project

Slow_Response_Issue_of_geWorkbench_Web most of the issues collected there have been resolved by now