Human Echolocation WebApp

h1. Development notes

h3. Some issues on building the compiled version of the MATLAB code

h4. Reading config files (m files using eval)

When reading/writing files - such as config files - not everything will behave like in the matlab console. 

The way the config files were being read was not working - was simply using eval. It was necessary to read the file manually, adapting the suggestion found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/185461/reading-input-m-file-in-a-main-m-file#185660

> (...)in a function we would create a text file, INP, containing our parameters. 

> We create this file in the directory returned by the ctfroot function. 

> Then, in MAIN, we would use the following to retrieve these parameters:

> 

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  eval(char(textread(fullfile(ctfroot, INP), '%s', 'whitespace', '');

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See commit:d9262cdbfb38d9262cdbfb38 on the jabuilder-int branch.

h4. Other input/output files

At the moment the input/output is done in the same folder where the the java class is being called from (hrir_final.mat and binsimecho.wav...).

h3. Building the isvr jar 

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> /Applications/MATLAB_R2013b.app/bin/mcc -W "java:uk.ac.soton.isvr,HumanEcho" -d ./scratch -T "link:lib" -v "class{HumanEcho:./webapp/WEB-INF/mcode/gen_echo.m}"

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h4. Contents of the isvr jar

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> jar tvf scratch/isvr.jar

     0 Tue Nov 26 16:47:42 GMT 2013 META-INF/

    68 Tue Nov 26 16:47:44 GMT 2013 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

     0 Tue Nov 26 16:47:30 GMT 2013 uk/

     0 Tue Nov 26 16:47:30 GMT 2013 uk/ac/

     0 Tue Nov 26 16:47:30 GMT 2013 uk/ac/soton/

     0 Tue Nov 26 16:47:36 GMT 2013 uk/ac/soton/isvr/

  3895 Tue Nov 26 16:47:36 GMT 2013 uk/ac/soton/isvr/HumanEcho.class

   336 Tue Nov 26 16:47:36 GMT 2013 uk/ac/soton/isvr/HumanEchoRemote.class

168802 Tue Nov 26 16:47:30 GMT 2013 uk/ac/soton/isvr/isvr.ctf

  1798 Tue Nov 26 16:47:36 GMT 2013 uk/ac/soton/isvr/IsvrMCRFactory.class

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h3. Configuration 

The app configuration file can be found in @WebContent/WEB-INF/classes/myapp.properties@

h3. Logging

We are using log4j for logging. The log4j jar (1.2.17) is included in the repository. The configuration file is in @webapp/WEB-INF/classes/@

h2. Building the webapp with Javabuilder/MATLAB (using the precompiled isvr.jar)

* Download MATLAB MCR 2013b (8.2) version from this page: 

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http://www.mathworks.co.uk/products/compiler/mcr/

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h2. Tomcat 

* Using Tomcat 7 (Catalina). Download from 

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http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

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