Welcome to MathSpring.
This repo can be cloned or forked but you will still need to do some setup.
This repo contains the Java source files that make up the server side of mathspring and the Javascript/HTML/CSS that makes up the client side.
The project is set up to work with Intellij IDEA 2016 Ultimate edition.
The web/META-INF has not been included in this repository because it contains the context.xml which has database user names and passwords. More explanation of this is given in step 5 below.
There is a large amount of math content that is also not part of this repo. You can still develop and run the tutor without it but if you need to see math problems as part of your testing, then you will need to get this. That is explained below in step 6.
Many IntelliJ files have been submitted, and this code is easiest to work with in IntelliJ.
---INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS---
Mathspring developers: Clone the repository on your local machine.
You will need to install Tomcat 8 and configure IntelliJ to find its installation directory. This is done by Clicking Run | Edit Configurations , Click + in upper left. Add a local Tomcat Server (you may need to enable the Tomcat plug-in for IDEA)
Make sure your Intellij project points at the correct Java JDK (vers 8 or higher - same with the language level because of lambdas in use)
Project dependencies are managed by Maven so you will want to enable the IDEA maven plug-in. Each module has its own pom.xml which you shouldn't mess with unless you need to bring in new libraries to support what you are doing (take a look at whats in there, as there are likely libraries that will be useful). Open the Maven Projects tool window (available off the View | Tool Window menu). Once you have loaded all the code into Intellij IDEA, you need to tell Maven to go fetch all the libraries that the project depends on. In the Maven tool window, click on the recycle arrow icon to Reimport all Maven projects. THis may take some time to get all the stuff and put it in your local maven repo
The META-INF/context.xml is how mathspring knows how to connect to a database. This file has been removed from the git repo. If you are a member of the project you can get one from me (marshall62@gmail.com). If you are not, you can create a standard context.xml that defines where your mysql db is and the user/password for connecting to a wayangoutpostdb (which you will also need to get from me). The web.xml file in web/WEB-INF/web.xml defines an init-paramter called wodb.datasource. It should be set to jdbc/wodblocal if you want to connect to your local db. Thus your context.xml must have a resource like:
<Resource name="jdbc/wodblocal" type="javax.sql.DataSource" auth="Container" description="Mysql database for Mathforum" maxActive="100" maxIdle="30" maxWait="10000" username="MyDBUser" password="MyDBPassword" removeAbandoned="true" removeAbandonedTimeout="60" logAbandoned="true" testWhileIdle="true" testOnBorrow="true" testOnReturn="true" timeBetweenEvictionRunMillis="600000" numTestsPerEvictionRun="10" validationQuery="SELECT 1" driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/wayangoutpostdb?autoReconnect=true" />
If you want to connect to a database elsewhere (e.g. on the rose server) you will need to add additional resources to the context.xml and set the web.xml init parameter wodb.datasource so it uses them.
Use Mysql Workbench and make sure this user and password is defined for your database (with only localhost access to be safe) and that it has select,insert,delete,update access.
Note: The database was originally designed on a Windows machine where table names are not case sensitive. When you install the database on other systems that have case sensitive file systems, you will need to configure mysql (ubuntu has a my.cnf file in /etc/mysql that you can edit to have lower_case_table_names = 1 )
Next you need to get the mathspring math content and unzip it. This is a dir called mscontent and it must be placed in your woServer/webResources/mathspring dir (you will need to create these dirs). Get the latest mscontent zip from rose.cs.umass.edu/mathspring/backup/ The result should be /woServer/webResources/mathspring/mscontent. If you run mathspring and get a bunch of 404 errors so that it doesn't show the learning companion and math problems, it will be because you didn't do this right.
Now you should be able to run the system. Click the Run | Edit Configurations menu and create a new Tomcat Server (local). It should be pointing at your installation tomcat if you followed step 2 correctly. In the lower right you will see a button that says "Warning no artifacts marked for deployment" with a "Fix" button . Click the button and select woServer web-localhost exploded. Now go to the deployment tab of this dialog and give it a deployment context of /mt. Return to the main tab and make sure the URL to main page is now: http://localhost:8080/mt/ and that it will automatically open a browser (Chrome is best for mathspring) to this page when you run. Call this runtime configuration "Mathspring" . You should now be able to Click Run | Run Mathspring or Run | Debug Mathspring and it will pop up a browser that takes you to an index.html with links to various parts of the system. Note this index.html lives in /woServer/resources/index.html where you will find much of the front-end support for the system including JSPs, Javascript, HTML, CSS and images.
The instructions below relate to set-up for a Mac OS and haven't been tested in awhile.
Getting MathSpring to Local
(For Mac OS)
Open a GIT hub account at https://github.com
Fork the repository on Github, and clone the forked repository under your user.
Download and install IntelliJ IDEA. You can start with a 30 day free trial - https://
www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
java -version
should display your java version
A. Get tar.gz from here - http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi (Binary Distributions /
B. Unarchive the download
C. Move to /usr/local
D. Create a symbolic link to refer to this tomcat
E. Change ownership of this folder hierarchy:
F. Make all scripts executable:
sudo mv ~/Downloads/apache-tomcat-7.0.64 /usr/local
sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.47 /Library/Tomcat
sudo chown -R
/Library/Tomcat sudo chmod +x /Library/Tomcat/bin/*.sh
A. Download DMG from https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ and follow through the
instructions to install.
B. Set up your user and password-
cd /usr/local/mysql/bin/
./mysql -u root -h localhost -p
mysql> update mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD(‘< >’) WHERE User = 'root’;
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Mathspring Set up
Open IntelliJ IDEA Environment
In the welcome screen, select “Checkout from Version Control” > GitHub
Select the mathspring repository
The project should be ready to use. But if you see an error in the BaseServlet.java, you
need to fix a dependency -
Right click on project > Open Module Settings > Modules > + > Module dependency >
select emailer module > OK
./mysqldump --single-transaction -uWayangServer -p -h rose.cs.umass.edu
wayangoutpostdb > "/Users/S*/Doc/local.sql”
./mysql -u root -h localhost -p
mysql> create database wayangoutpostdb;
./mysql -u root -p wayangoutpostdb < "/Users/S*/Doc/local.sql”
Note: Some versions of MySQL are not happy with the import. You may have to search from strings like ROW_FORMAT=FIXED in the .sql file and replace with empty string if MySQL complains about these options not being available
A. View > Tools Window > Databases > + > datasource > MySQL
B. URL: jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/wayangoutpostdb
C. Enter your user and password
D. Run basic SQL queries to validate