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Exhibit Source 2

Found it hard to analyse the source of Exhibit on a server, and decided to do it on my notebook PC.

First install subversion

sudo apt-get install subversion

Installed other recommended packages, subversion-tools and db4.5util as well. Ran, as a user,

cd ~
mkdir Workspace
cd Workspace
svn checkout http://simile.mit.edu/repository/exhibit/branches/2.0 exhibit

As for Java, previously OpenJDK is installed as part of Japanese Setup Helper:

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-b09)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 1.6.0-b09, mixed mode, sharing)

Started the built-in Jetty server:

cd exhibit
./run &

Access on Firebox to http://127.0.0.1:8888/exhibit/site/index.html works. But, when running examples, got errors. First of all, Googlemaps, of course. Could i get a Googlemaps key for 127.0.0.1:8888? Anyhow, found one example that doesn't use Googlemaps, cereals. OK, it runs! Still, seems to have a problem of links from "more" in a dialog window...

Since i got a desktop environment to run Exhibit with its source, i will try to do some analysis and experiments by using some tools. First, installed the SCiTE editor, which understand HTML and Javascript.

sudo apt-get install scite

does it, and works soundly

Trying to replace http://static.simile.mit.edu/... with http://127.0.0.1:8888/... but, it's not very straightforward.