Welcome to docmag - a project that will revolutionize the way students and professors manage documents.

Both the source and target versions are 1.7 so you should get it if you don't have it.

NOTE: You will need to set the path variable JAVA_HOME to point to the install directory of Java 1.7. This is required by Maven, otherwise you can't compile.

We use MongoDB as our database. Install it and add the bin directory to your PATH. Then create a configuration file somewhere in your system e.g. /path/to/mongodb.conf and add the location where you want Mongo to store your collections, like this: dbpath=/path/to/some/folder. Add any other configuration options you like e.g. journal=true. Then start MongoDB with one of the following commands:

mongod --config /path/to/mongodb.conf
mongod -f /path/to/mongodb.conf

Or supply all options through the command line:

mongod --dbpath /path/to/some/folder

Verify the database is up by typing mongo in a new console. This starts up a console client where you can run queries.

To manage such a complex project we need an equally complex tool. We're using Maven. Please download the latest version from here. At the time of writing this is 3.1.1.

To add a dependency to the project you need to edit the pom.xml file like this:

<dependencies>
  ...
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.example</groupId>
    <artifactId>cool.library</artifactId>
    <version>${cutting.edge}</version>
  </dependency>
  ...
</dependencies>

Any IDE with support for Java and Maven should be sufficient for our purposes. However you could use even a simple text editor and build / commit from the command line. Since we're using Spring though, the recommended IDE is STS, because it has all the necessary and useful plugins included. Alternatively you could use an existing Eclipse installation and just add whatever you need, e.g. m2e for Maven integration and EGit for Git source control.

In STS or Eclipse with m2e installed just go to File -> Import... -> Maven -> Existing Maven Projects and you're good to go.

Should there be any need, more detailed explanations will be added.

The server to use is Tomcat 7. You can get it from here. Of course any servlet container with equal or better API support should work as well. If you write any tests you're encouraged to use the Jetty Maven plugin to run them.