Web Interface to NWB Query Engine

Introduction

NWB Query Engine is a tool for searching in data stored in Neurodata Without Borders data format.

A demo is available.

Getting started

Running Prerequisites

• Installed JDK 8

• Installed Apache Tomcat 8

• Installed Maven

• or Docker instead

Configuration

• configure WEB-INF/project.properties

Build

run mvn clean package

Deploy

Tomcat

• copy src/main/resources/libHDFql.so to a directory accessible by tomcat
• configure JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.library.path=path to a directory with libHDFQL.so
• copy target/nwb-query-engine-web.war to the tomcat webapps directory
• start tomcat

Or Docker

• docker build -t nwb-query-engine-web -f Docker/Dockerfile .
• docker run -p 8080:8080 -v <host data directory path>:/Data nwb-query-engine-web

Use

• access localhost:8080/nwb-query-engine-web

Frequent problems

• JAVA_OPTS is not set correctly
• files.folder in project.properties is not set or is pointing to a non-existing directory or to a directory with insufficient permissions
• parameter -v (Docker) is not set correctly