Quick Start
First download the zip file from microserver-1.0.zip
Unzip the file on your local computer, this will create a folder called microserver
Open a command line terminal and change directory into the microserver folder.
In the terminal type the command java -jar microserver you should see text something like
2010-07-16 11:28:39.564:INFO::Started SocketConnector@0.0.0.0:8080 The local server is now ready.
(If you want to stop the server type Ctrl+C)
Open a web browser and go to the url http://localhost:8080/article link. You should see a page which looks like a page on guardian.co.uk
About half way down the page on the right hand side you should see a component that looks like …
This is your component.
In the microserver folder there is a file called config.properties and a file called list-component.html
Open the file list-component.html and edit the line
<h3>Heading of the component</h3>
to read
<h3>Edited heading</h3>
Now take the absolute URL of the file list-component.html.
Absolute URLs for files look something like the following..
Linux file:///home/user/microserver/list-component.html
Windows file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/user/microserver/list-component.html
Open the file config.properties and change the following line
componentUrl=http://github.com/gklopper/microserver/raw/master/examples/promo/list-component.html
to read
componentUrl=file:///home/user/microserver/list-component.html (use your own file url)
Make sure both files are saved and refresh the page http://localhost:8080/article, your component should have changed the heading.