RAMADDA is a freely available content and data management platform that is simple to install and use - in the cloud or even on your laptop. With its open and extensible framework, RAMADDA provides a place for all of your documents, data and digital stuff.

• See the main site here.
• User guide
• Below are some examples of what you can do with RAMADDA. Also check out the Boulder Data Hub.

Download

You can build from source (below) or download prebuilt versions of RAMADDA at https://ramadda.org/repository/alias/release/

Building

To build RAMADDA run:

ant

This builds:

dist/repository.war  - For Tomcat
dist/ramadda.zip  - Stand-alone release

The war is created with the "repository" name so the context path for tomcat is /repository

Running stand-alone

You can run RAMADDA stand-alone from the source tree. After building do:

cd  dist/ramadda/
sh ramadda.sh

You can also run from your classpath with:

classpath="/src:/lib"

and run:

java  -Xmx2048m org.ramadda.repository.server.JettyServer

Making a release

From the top-level directory just do:

ant release

This does:

ant purge;  //does a clean and deletes  the dist directory.
ant plugins; //builds most of the plugins and makes the allplugins.zip file
ant ramadda

The allplugins.zip gets copied into the ramadda/repository/resources/plugins dir and is included in the ramadda release.

The result of the release target is:

dist/repository.war  - The war to be used by Tomcat
dist/ramadda.zip  - The zip file that holds the stand-alone RAMADDA release (which uses Jetty)
dist/repositoryclient.jar  - Used by 3rd party clients (e.g., IDV, JGRASS) 
dist/repositoryclient.zip  - To run the stand-alone command line client

Plugins

To build the plugins run:

ant plugins

This compiles all of the released plugins and installs them in your local ~/.ramadda/plugins directory

You can build the individual plugins from their build.xml in their own directory, e.g.:

cd src/org/ramadda/geodata/data
ant

The user guide and the workshop plugins use a tcl script from the IDV source release. We have a copy of that in bin/idvdocgen. This relies on having tclsh in your path. If you don't have this then you can either define the path to tclsh in the build.properties file or when you run ant do:

ant -Dtclsh=<path to tclsh>

RAMADDA Source Tree

src: The main source of RAMADDA is in src/org/ramadda/repository There is a build.xml there that does all of the building. The top level build.xml here can be used to build ramadda and the plugins

The plugins are in

src/org/ramadda/plugins
src/org/ramadda/geodata

lib: Contains all of the jars RAMADDA depends on.

bin: Contains a copy of the RAMADDA's document generation package.

dist: This directory is created during the build process. All build products get placed there.

html resources: The core JS, images and css are in:

src/org/ramadda/repository/htdocs

The JS and CSS files that are used are created with the script:

src/org/ramadda/repository/htdocs/build.sh

This script cats together groups of JS and CSS files and then runs a minify script on them. This script uses the jsmin python script for minification. See the script on how to install it