Documentation ¶

• GnowsisProjectPlan - first thing for everybody
• GnowsisProjectStructure - where is which file?
• DeveloperFaq
• ​html documentation - plus Javadoc

Project guidelines:

• LoggingAndDebugging - using logging and debugging to find out what happens
• GnowsisTicketsAndWiki - what to put in tickets, what to put in the wiki
• Use meaningful SVN commit logs that outline the changes made - see ​commit guidelines or the ​committers guide

Get it running ¶

Detailed installation instructions for developers: DevelopingFirstSteps

The subversion repository is

• ​https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/repos/gnowsis/branches/gnowsis0.9/

There you check out these projects, the most important projects to check out are:

• gnowsis
• gnowsis-server
• enquire2006
• kaukoluwiki (If you want kaokolu wiki)
• sesame1 (If you want the sesame web interface)

If you want to do Aperture development:

• Aperture in CVS: cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/aperture login
  • host: cvs.sourceforge.net
  • repository path: /cvsroot/aperture
  • connection type: pserver
  • username: anonymous
  • password: empty
• Checkout project aperture

Getting it to start ¶

The gnowsis project has the launcher for you.

• If you have gnowsis checked out - the "run..." menu should have a list of favourites:
  • Windows start gnowsis
  • MacOSX start gnowsis
• The GnowsisInstaller will show. satisfy it.
• pressing close. gnowsis installs now silently. stand up, take a breath. think of something positive. notice the new simplicity. tell somebody a nice thing. sit down again.
• GnowsisProjectPlan - look here to see what we are doing at the moment and what will be done next.

Specific Fields of Development ¶

• all GnowsisComponents
• ProblemsWithJunitTests
• EmailDeveloping - specific stuff related to e-mails
• ProblemsWithEclipse - what problems do we have and how to usually get them solved
• GnowsisOnTheMac - Mac OsX adaption
• ​gno-rdf-components - the gnogno-gui framework tutorial (from gnowsis.org website, latest version in SVN).
• GnowsisGuiTips - how to hack guis for gnowsis, brainstorm and concrete ideas.
• SearchDeveloping - developing the web-based desktop search and retrieval service
• InstallerDeveloping - howto make an installer, what can we use
• MozillaDeveloping - how to setup an environment to hack Mozilla XPI extensions
• AdapterDeveloping - how to write an adapter and make gnowsis use it?
• XmlRpcDeveloping - links for XMLRPC
• GnowsisConfiguration - where to put configuration files?
• GnowsisFixedUris - what are these static uris about?
• NicerGui - how to brushup the gui

Contributing ¶

The first thing you might want to do is to write your own datasource, Gnowsis can deploy your own datasources without having to change the gnowsis code: See DynamicDatasources for more information! Then JoinGnowsis.