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If you are not yet familiar with the DuraCloud Mill please refer to the DuraCloud Architecture document, which describes the purpose and primary components of the Mill.

Requirements

1. Java: Version 8 required
   
   1. The Oracle JDK is recommended for building DuraCloud, as this is the JDK used for DuraCloud testing.
2. Maven 3.x
3. Git
4. MySQL database
5. AWS account and credentials

Download, Build, Configure

1. To start,  clone and build the latest release of the mill

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   git clone https://github.com/duracloud/mill.git cd mill git checkout release-2.21.0 mvn clean install

2. Create database
   1. Create the empty mill database
   2. Add database credentials
   3. Create the schema using <mill project root>/resources/mill.schema.sql 
   4. Run schema updates in ascending order:  <mill project root>/resources/schema-update-*.sql
3. Create a configuration file.
   1. Now that you've built the mill and created the database, we need to set up a configuration file that can be used my the various components of the system. A template of this configuration file can be found in the base line at mill/resources/mill-config-sample.properties
      1. Copy and rename the file to mill-config.properties

      2. Configure the database connections to the mill database as well as the management console database:

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         ################### # Mill Database ################### # Config for mill database. mill.db.host=[fill in] mill.db.port=[fill in] mill.db.name=[fill in] # User must have read/write permission mill.db.user=[fill in] mill.db.pass=[fill in] ################### # Account Management Database ################### # Config for the management console database - used to retrieve accounts and storage provider credentials db.host=[fill in] db.port=[fill in] db.name=[fill in] # User must have read permission db.user=[fill in] db.pass=[fill in]

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Workman is responsible for reading tasks off from a set of queues, delegating them to task processors, and removing them once they have reached a completed state.  In the case of failures,  tasks are retried three times before they are sent to the dead letter queue.   A single instance of Workman can run multiple tasks in parallel.  How many tasks depends on the max-workers setting in the mill-config.properties file.  It is also safe to run multiple instances of workman a single machine as well as multiple.  We recommend running a single instance of workman on each machine instance, setting the max-workers setting in accordance with the available resources.   

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