Good news - JeromeDL runs out of the box. You do not have to make any configuration changes if you just want to play with it. Here are some express installation tips.
Prerequisites
- Have JDK 5.0 installed on your system (remember to have JAVA_HOME variable set up on the path to JDK5.0)
- Download JeromeDL installator and run it, or ...
- Download JeromeDL+Tomcat package and unpack it to any writable device (can be a USB stick)
Running JeromeDL on Windows
- go to the directory where JeromeDL package has been unpacked
- execute
- check you web browser with address http://localhost:8080/jeromedl/
- if nothing unexpected has happened - congratulations - you have JeromeDL instance running
Running JeromeDL on Linux
- Open console
- go to the directory where JeromeDL package has been unpacked:
- execute
- check you web browser with address http://localhost:8080/jeromedl/
- if nothing unexpected has happened - congratulations - you have JeromeDL instance running
However, once you are happy with it, and ready to use it as your semantic digital library, this configuration tutorial will come in very handy. There are some things you might want to change to accommodate your installation to your environment, or to use any of the advanced features like aggregation mode or distributed searching.