Orienteer

What is Orienteer

Orienteer is Business Application Platform:

• Easy creation of business applications
• Extendable to fit your needs
• Dynamic datamodel
• Rest/JSON enabled
• Developers friendly
• Scalling and cloud ready (support of Docker)

Orienteer Guidebook

Demo

• Master Demo Server

Orienteer installation

There are two options for Orienteer installation:

• Embedded (on application server)
• Standalone (no need in application server)

Embedded

Orienteer is Java Servlet 3.1 web application and can be installed on all famous compatible containers:

• Jboss
• Weblogic
• IBM WebSphere
• Tomcat
• Jetty
• and etc.

To install Orienteer in embedded mode:

• Download latest orienteer.war
• Put orienteer.war into deployment folder for your application server
• Configure orienteer.properties according to your environment and place it in the same directory or above
• Run application server

Standalone

Orienteer in standalone mode use embedded jetty server to run yourself. To install Orienteer in standalone mode:

• Download latest orienteer-standalone.jar
• Put orienteer-standalone.jar into any directory
• Optionally configure orienteer.properties accordging to your environment and place it in the same directory or above
  • By default, Orienteer, will run OrientDB database embedded
• Run Orinteer as java -Xmx512m -Xms512m -jar orienteer-standalone.jar. JVM parameters can be adjusted accordingly. Additional application parameters can be supplied:
  • --config=<filename> - specification of path to orienteer configuration file
  • --embedded - run embedded OrientDB database
  • --port=<port number> - run Orienteer on specified port (Default: 8080)
  • --help - display help

Orienteer initial configuration

orienteer.properties is the main file to store initial configuration paramenters for your installation. Sample properties file can be always found here.

orienteer.production=false  //Run Orienteer in production mode or not
orientdb.embedded=false     //Run embedded OrientDB server?
orientdb.url=remote:localhost/Orienteer   //OrientDB server URL
orientdb.guest.username=reader               //Default OrientDB user (will be used for guests as well)
orientdb.guest.password=reader               //Password for default OrientDB user
orientdb.admin.username=admin    //OrientDB user to user for administrative stuff
orientdb.admin.password=admin    //Password for OrientDB user used for administrative stuff

# Optional properties

#orientdb.rest.url=http://localhost:2480
#plantuml.url=http://custom-plantuml-url
#plantuml.showuml=false;

#webjars.readFromCacheTimeout=5 seconds
#webjars.useCdnResources=true
#webjars.cdnUrl=//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com:80

Setup of development environment

Prerequisites

1. java 7+
2. git
3. maven
4. OrientDB, if you want to use OrientDB remotely

Steps

Install of wicket-orientdb github SNAPSHOT

This step is optional: wicket-orientdb SNAPSHOT always available on Maven central

git clone <your fork URL for wicket-orientdb>
cd wicket-orientdb
mvn clean install

Install Orienteer

cd ..
git clone <your fork URL for Orienteer>
cd Orienteer
mvn clean install

Modify orienteer.properties file

See configuration section above

Code compilation

mvn clean install

Run jetty server by command

mvn jetty:run

Goto the application

Open http://localhost:8080 is in your browser