Installation Guide
Abbreviations
The following notational abbreviations are used within the
instructions:
- <TOMCAT> - root directory of Tomcat distribution.
- <TOMCAT-OGSA-WEBINF> - the directory
<TOMCAT>/webapps/ogsa/WEB-INF/.
- <TOMCAT-OGSA-CLASSES> - the directory
<TOMCAT-OGSA-WEBINF>/classes.
- <TOMCAT-OGSA-ETC> - the directory <TOMCAT-OGSA-WEBINF>/etc
- <OGSA-HOME> - root directory of Globus Toolkit 3 Alpha 4 binary
distribution.
- <OGSA-DAI> - root directory of OGSA-DAI distribution.
Preparing OGSA
Download the following ZIP archives from here:
- Tomcat with GT3 deployed
- OGSA-DAI R3 preview release
- Xindice
Setting environment variables:
To set environment variables and paths
prior to installing OGSA-DAI:
- Set the environment variable CATALINA_HOME:
#> export CATALINA_HOME=<TOMCAT>
Installing OGSA-DAI
Deploying OGSA-DAI Under Tomcat
- Change to the OGSA-DAI directory:
#> cd <OGSA-DAI>
- Make a build directory if there is not already one there:
#> mkdir build
- Build the installation files by typing the command:
#> ant deploy
This will copy the necessary files to your Tomcat installation, and edit
the files necessary to deploy the services.
Testing the OGSA-DAI installation
Now start up Tomcat: #> cd <TOMCAT>/bin
#> ./startup.sh
Via a Web Browser, visit the URL http://localhost:8080/ogsa/services.
You should see a list of the services deployed on the Tomcat instance, including
ogsadai/GridDataServiceFactoryXindice
ogsadai/DAIServiceGroupRegistry