Author: Will Abson
This add-on project for Alfresco Share defines a simple dashlet to display current weather observations and a three day forecast for over 9,000 locations across the world. Data is sourced from the BBC Weather RSS feeds.
The dashlet is packaged as a single JAR file for easy installation into Alfresco Share.
To install the dashlet, simply drop the bbc-weather-dashlet-<version>.jar file into the tomcat/shared/lib folder within your Alfresco installation, and restart the application server. You might need to create this folder if it does not already exist.
An Ant build script is provided to build a JAR file containing the custom files, which can then be installed into the tomcat/shared/lib folder of your Alfresco installation.
To build the JAR file, run Ant from the base project directory.
ant dist-jar
The command should build a JAR file named bbc-weather-dashlet-<version>.jar in the build/dist directory within your project.
To deploy the dashlet files into a local Tomcat instance for testing, you can use the hotcopy-tomcat-jar task. You will need to set the tomcat.home property in Ant.
ant -Dtomcat.home=C:/Alfresco/tomcat hotcopy-tomcat-jar
Once you have deployed the JAR file you will need to restart Tomcat so that the resources are picked up.
