How to Run Womcat Bookmarks

Copyright (C) 2003 Philip Dorrell
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Starting the Application

• Run the executable jar WomcatBookmarksServer.jar in the directory C:/womcat/womcat/application (in Windows by double clicking on it).
• Wait for the server to finish starting up (it will show "RUNNING" in the title window).
• Your local browser will also start up accessing the application's start page. (If it doesn't then click on the shortcut WomcatBookmarksClient.url in the C:/womcat/womcat/application directory, or directly access http://localhost:9072/womcat in your browser.

Sample Activity

As a user of Womcat Bookmarks, you perform tasks similar to the following:

• Define a subject, e.g. "Science"
• Define a subject that is a child of an existing subject, e.g. "Biology" is a child of "Science".
• Add a URL recommendation e.g. "http://www.myreallygoodbiologysite.com/" is a good site about subject "Biology".
• Add a referral to another user's Womcat bookmarks, e.g. "http://www.someonesbiology.com/womcat-bookmarks.xml" is a good set of bookmarks.
• Upload your own bookmarks to a file and place it on your own web site. (Note that the export function merely places the file on your local system, it is up to you to upload it to your web site.)
• Run a download job to download other user's bookmark files into your own Womcat database.
• Browse subjects and URL's in your Womcat database.
• While browsing, add recommendations and referrals to your own set of bookmarks.
• And so on ...

Closing It Down

You can close the application local web server in one of two ways:

• Click the "Exit" button in the server window.
• Click the "Exit" button in the application "Home" page.

Either of these steps closes down the local server application. It is left to the user to manually close down their web browser.