Weave Setup Guide

This guide is written to provide you with instructions for setting up Weave and to quickly have a
visualization up and running. The first section gives a brief introduction to the Weave
architecture to know which components/ software are required. Then we describe the steps
involved in setting up Weave. The documentation for setting up each software/step is available
in separate documents.

Weave Architecture

Client/
Application Web Services
Data Server Web Browser
Server
{MySQL, PostGreSQL} {TomCat, GlassFish} {Any Browser with a Flash Player
Plugin}

The above diagram is a very high level representation of our architecture.

For the data server, we currently support MySQL and PostGreSQL. You can use any of these for
hosting your data.

The application server will host the Weave Middleware for running the web services. We
recommend using TomCat. Optionally, you can also host the middleware on GlassFish.

(Note: You don’t need to have a data base server or use the middleware web services. If you
only deal with datasets in CSV, Excel files and other delimited format Weave can handle them
on the client side.)

Weave is a Flash based software and will run on any web browser with the Flash Player plug-in
installed.
Hardware Requirements
The recommendations below are for installing Weave on a server machine to support a large
number of users. Weave can also be installed on your personal laptop or work desktop.

Estimated Minimum System Requirements (Windows OS):

At least, one dual core processor or faster
2 GB RAM
12 GB storage

Installation Steps
Step 1: Install MySQL (Recommended) or PostgreSQL

Install the latest version of MySQL (or PostgreSQL) and have it running. When you have Weave
finally installed you will need to know the username and password used to access the database
server.

Detailed installation document for MySQL is available separately.

Step 2: Setup Java

Install the latest version of Java Development Kit (JDK). This also installs Java Runtime
Enviroment(JRE). Then sent up the environment variable: JAVA_HOME. Tomcat (and
GlassFish) needs this variable to run.

Detailed installation document for setting this up is available separately.

Step 3: Setup Tomcat (Recommended) or GlassFish

Install the latest version of Tomcat (or GlassFish) and run it. Detailed installation document for
Tomcat is available separately.

Step 4: Setup Flash Player

Install the latest version of the Flash Player plugin for your browser. Detailed installation
document for the plugin is available separately.

Step5: Setup Weave

This process involves simply extracting some files to the Tomcat (or GlassFish) server. Complete
details are available in a separate document.