= AnnotationManagerN4J =

AnnotationManagerN4J is an annotation server compatible with the [[http://okfnlabs.org/annotator/|Annotator]] client implementing the [[https://github.com/okfn/annotator/wiki/Storage|Annotator storage API]] (with some extensions).

It is written in Java using the [[http://www.restlet.org/|Restlet]] framework and the [[http://neo4j.org/|Neo4J]] graph database. It is built using [[http://maven.apache.org/|Maven]].


== Source ==

The source code can be browsed [[source:AnnotationManagerN4J|here]] or in the [[http://mercurial.selenic.com/|Mercurial]] repository at https://it-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/hg/AnnotationManagerN4J/


== Building ==

To check out and build AnnotationManagerN4J you need [[http://mercurial.selenic.com/|Mercurial]] and [[http://maven.apache.org/|Maven]]:

1. `hg clone https://it-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/hg/AnnotationManagerN4J`
2. `cd AnnotationManagerN4J`
3. `mvn package` (this produces the web-app as a directory `target/AnnotationManager` or war file `target/AnnotationManager.war`)


=== Prerequisites ===

Before you can build AnnotationManagerN4J you need the [[http://code.google.com/p/jsontoken|jsontoken]] library in version 1.1 which is currently not automatically included by Maven. You have to check out the source code from http://code.google.com/p/jsontoken/source/checkout using SVN and build with Maven:

1. `svn checkout http://jsontoken.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ jsontoken`
2. `cd jsontoken`
3. `mvn install`