This document will walk you through getting the code, building the webapp, and exercising the REST API.
Fedora 4 requires Java 7 and Maven 3 (only for building the project). Check that you have them installed before proceeding:
You can Downloads and Deploying Fedora 4 Complete Guide. or pre-packaged Jetty instances, or build Fedora 4 from source (it's not difficult or too time consuming).
Clone the latest code from Github:
And build the project (the first time you build Fedora 4 may take some time and bandwidth to download all the development dependencies):
The webapp can be run from a bundled instance of jetty. The application will listen on port 8080 by default.
If you would like to run the webapp on a different port, you can add the "jetty.port" option in your maven command (e.g. mvn -Djetty.port=8181 jetty:run)
There's a nice, friendly HTML interface waiting for you at http://localhost:8080/rest/
The RESTful HTTP API provides a full listing of the features and functions of the REST API. Here are some examples to get you started:
The REST API supports a variety of RDF serialization formats, including:
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