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Building the Project

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Maven Repositories

  1. From the ActiveViam share page, download the maven repository for the version of the Solution is based on (will be specified in the release notes of the Solution you are deploying). The zip file containing the maven repository will be called maven-repository-<version number>.zip.
  2. On the Solution Release Notes page, follow the directions to the Distribution Files section and download the maven repository for the Solution (contains all dependencies required to build the Solution that aren’t included in the download). A zip file containing the maven repository will be called frtb-<version number>-maven-repository.zip. Add these repositories to your existing maven repository.

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Source

Download and unzip the source zip from the Artifactory page.

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Build

  1. To compile the source code using Maven, you must set your MAVEN_OPTS environment variable, to pass Java options, like so: MAVEN_OPTS="-Xss8m".
You may need to change the stack size with this option. Here are some useful parameters:
-Xms<size>        set initial Java heap size
-Xmx<size>        set maximum Java heap size
-Xss<size>        set java thread stack size
  1. Once you have added all the maven repositories and extracted the source code, run mvn install on the parent pom file to build the entire project. This will build the executable JAR files for (frtb-stater/target/frtb-starter-exec.jar).
  2. When the build is complete, you must deploy it. See Deployment.
  3. Build the standalone UI application using npm or yarn.
  4. Deploy the UI application.

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Configuration

See Project configuration.

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Deployment

From FRTB 2.1.0 onwards, the frtb-starter is a Spring Boot application that builds to an executable JAR. To deploy the executable JAR files, simply use the following commands: 
java --add-opens java.base/java.util.concurrent=ALL-UNNAMED -jar frtb-starter-exec.jar
and 
java --add-opens java.base/java.util.concurrent=ALL-UNNAMED -jar frtb-activemonitor-2.2.0-exec.jar
Note that the executable JAR will publish the application on a specific port. The default port for frtb-starter is 8080. will be available at: http://<your hostname>:8080/frtb-starter/   You can change the port by either of the following:
  • Use the argument server.port. For example: 
    java --add-opens java.base/java.util.concurrent=ALL-UNNAMED -jar frtb-starter-exec.jar --server.port=<port>
  • Externalize the properties files (see Externalizing Properties Files )
is a static website that can be deployed in any way you see fit. All the necessary files are to be found in the ./build folder of the standalone application after the project has been built. As an example, the UI can be deployed on Tomcat using the following instructions:
  1. Build the standalone application:
    1. Use maven to build the project. You can use the command mvn clean install on the parent pom - This will build all the necessary modules including the Javascript UI
  2. Place the deployment in the webapps folder of your Tomcat
    1. Find where the webapps folder is for your Tomcat
    2. Create a folder called frtb-activeui in the Tomcat webapps folder
    3. Copy the contents from the build folder into your new folder webapps/frtb-activeui/
  3. Start the Tomcat server. You can now access the UI on the address http://<your hostname>:<port>/frtb-activeui/.

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Externalizing Properties Files

In the default implementation, all the necessary properties are within the project. A number of properties files have been externalized and can be overridden with an external file using JVM variables. You may wish to use this functionality if you are running the project in different environments. Below is a list of the files together with their respective variable names: There are three options to override default properties:
  • OPTION 1: Command line arguments, e.g. --csv-source.dataset=/path/to/folder .
    Note:
    Here we use “--” when providing the option after calling the jar.
    If the option was called first, then “-D” is used.
  • OPTION 2: Create a properties file (e.g. application.properties) and add your property overrides. Then pass it to the main using the command line argument --spring.config.additional-location=/&lt;path&gt; application.properties
  • OPTION 3: Change the path to the default properties file using the appropriate variable specified below: | File | Variable Name | | --- | --- | | application.properties | app.env.properties.file.path | | hibernate.properties | hibernate.env.properties.file.path |
If any of the above variables are not set, the default properties files will be used. Example values for these properties files include:
  • classpath:<filename>;
  • file:/home/etc/<filename>; - Unix Environment
  • file:///C:/Users/john/config/<filename>; - Windows environment
For more details, see the Spring Boot documentation.  
Options 1 and 2 are recommended because they only override the properties you specify and use the defaults for other ones. Additionally, they can be used to override any property.Option 3 only works for specific properties files (i.e. the ones specified in the table above), and replaces the default file completely, meaning you need to make a copy of the default file and have all properties in your external custom file even if they have the same value as the default file.