KOLE 1.5.x Installation Guide

The latest stable patch release of KOLE is 1.5.2 version released on Aug 4th, 2014. The table below highlights some of the differences in the 1.5.0 and the consecutive patch versions.

The guide below will describe in as much detail as possible the process of building one of the 1.5 tags  and database migration processes for in between versions. 

1. Pre-requisites:

   1. Hardware: Kuali OLE can be built on both windows and linux platforms. The hardware specs will differ from institution to institution, but the default cloud settings where the codebase is deployed on a regular basis is as follows;
      1. Amazon EC2 instance (type m1.medium)
         1. AMD 64 bit
         2. Dual core
         3. 7.5 GB RAM
         4. 840 GB HDD
   2. Software:
      1. Building the application
         1. Maven 3
         2. Java 7
         3. svn client
      2. Running the application
         1. Apache tomcat 6 or 7
         2. MySQL 5.5 or greater

         3. or Oracle 11g

            Database drivers

            Don't forget to add the database drivers either MySQL or Oracle to the lib folder under tomcat.

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2. Checking out the deployable units: Depending on how you intend to run KOLE you can do the following;
   1. Install defaults and deploy the war(s): 
   2. Customize the build:
      1. Checkout the codebase from https://svn.kuali.org/repos/ole/tags/${tag.number}; Here tag.number is either 1.5 or 1.5.1 or 1.5.2
      2. Build it using the following maven command from the root directory of the project location
         1. Building deployable units

            mvn clean install

3. Customizing default parameters
4. Loading local data
5. Deploying to the server
6. Testing the application