Human Echolocation WebApp

h1. Wiki

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

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

The way teh 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

> (...)n 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:

> 

> <pre>

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

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See commit:d9262cdbfb38d9262cdbfb38 on the jabuilder-int branch.

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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