Jentrata - Message Handler Service

Jentrata MSH is based on Hermes Messaging Gateway developed by CECID, The University of Hong Kong. The goal of Jentrata is build on the orignial work developed by CECID as well as build a community to continue it's development.

See jentrata.org for complete details on the project

Building/Contributing

GitHub Setup

1. Fork Repo into your github account

2. Run on your local machine:

    git clone [email protected]:<github-username>/jentrata-msh.git
    cd jentrata-msh.git
    git remote add upstream [email protected]:jentrata/jentrata-msh.git
   

You can now pull/rebase from the upstream repository

git pull upstream master

And push now push these changes to your forked repository

git push

Also you should run the following

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email <your_email>

How to Build Jentrata from source

Requires maven 3.0+ and Java 6

git clone [email protected]:<github-username>/jentrata-msh.git
cd jentrata-msh
mvn clean install

This will create jentrata-msh-tomcat.tar.gz in jentrata-msh/Dist/target/ as well as an uncompressed version

How to get Jentrata Running on tomcat using PostgreSQL on unix (incuding Mac) systems

Install and configure Tomcat

1. download and install tomcat 6.x or 7.x

2. untar jentrata-msh-tomcat.tar.gz

3. set JENTRATA_HOME and TOMCAT_HOME environment variables, for example

    export JENTRATA_HOME=/dev/jentrata-msh-tomcat
    export TOMCAT_HOME=/dev/tomcat
   

4. create a symlink to the $JENTRATA_HOME/webapps/corvus in the $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps directory to

    ln -s $JENTRATA_HOME/webapps/corvus $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/corvus
   

5. set JAVA_OPTS environment variable as follows

    export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dcorvus.home=$JENTRATA_HOME"
   

6. add the following roles and user to $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/tomcat-users.xml

    <role rolename="admin"/>
    <role rolename="corvus"/>
    <user username="corvus" password="corvus" roles="tomcat,admin,corvus"/>
   

Install and configure database - here PostgreSQL

1. install postgresql 8.3+ - During the install, for the default user 'postgres', make the password 'postgres' (ignore quotes). For Mac OSX you should read the link - memory configuration info for OSX

2. copy the database creation scripts to your PostgreSQL install

    copy JENTRATA_HOME/sql/ebms.sql to the PostgreSQL bin directory
    copy JENTRATA_HOME/sql/as2.sql to the PostgreSQL bin directory
   

3. log in as the PostgreSQL user 'postgres' created during the install

4. set the password for the default user 'postgres' as a temporary environment variable

    export PGPASSWORD="postgres"
   

5. cd to the PostgreSQL bin directory

6. create a postgres user corvus with default password corvus

    ./createuser -s -d -P corvus
   

7. create the ebms and as2 databases

    ./createdb -O corvus ebms
    ./createdb -O corvus as2
   

8. Run the db create tables scripts

    ./psql -f ebms.sql ebms
    ./psql -f as2.sql as2
   

9. Logout as user postgres

Run Jentrata

1. Start tomcat and browse to http://localhost:8080/corvus/admin/home. You will need to login using the username and password you set in the tomcat-users.xml corvus/corus by default

2. If Jentrata doesn't start correctly you can check the various log files under $TOMCAT_HOME/logs/ or $JENTRATA_HOME/logs for errors