Mulgara Simple Tutorial

This is a simple tutorial for installing and using mulgara. Although mulgara has its own documentation, I think its not clear enough for beginer user like me :D (I have to explore how to compile jar file, which file should I download etc). Because just simple mistake could make many error. So I start this tutorial to help you installing and using mulgara easier.

You'll need :

1. Java version 1.5. You can download it here http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp. Just choose

   JDK 5.0 Update 21.

2. Apache Tomcat 5 or higher
3. The mulgara file. You can download it here http://www.mulgara.org/download.html. Choose the mulgara-2.1.3.src.zip or mulgara-2.1.3.src.tar.gz

That's all you need.

Installation :

1. Install java version 1.5. Just double click the installer and follow the wizard.
2. Or you can check if you have java on your computer or not by typing "java -version" in command prompt.
3. Install Tomcat 5 or 6. Just double click and follow the instruction
4. Unzip the mulgara-2.1.3.src.zip and put it on C:/ or anywhere you like.
5. Go to install_path/mulgara-2.1.3/dist/ (install_path = C:/path/directory, in my computer it looks like this : C:/mulgara-2.1.3), copy the path
6. Open command prompt, Start->run-> type cmd and Enter
7. Type "cd install_path/mulgara-2.1.3/dist/" without double quote(") in command prompt. You can also paste the path that you copied before.
8. Execute mulgara-2.1.3.jar by using this command in command prompt "java - jar mulgara-2.1.3.jar".

After running the mulgara server, now :

Using mulgara:

1. Open your web browser (mozilla,google chrome etc) and type "http://localhost:8080" and enter.
2. You should get something like this:
3. You will see a list of mulgara's services.
4. You can choose the tutorial to give you idea how to create the query.