Getting started with the MongoDB Java Driver Tutorial
Brief guide to running the MongoDB tutorial from QCon London and JAX London.
Setup
Create a new work area for this tutorial. For the rest of these instructions I’ll refer to it as <location>. I’ve put
mine in ~/Documents/workshops/jax
Installing MongoDB
Download MongoDB or get it off the USB stick
Unzip to an appropriate location, let’s say
<location>/mongodb
Then we’ll have to create the directory for the data to go into:
cd <location>
mkdir data`
And then start MongoDB:
./mongodb/bin/mongod --dbpath data
Now MongoDB should be running on localhost and port 27017
If you want, you can connect to the shell - this is not necessary for this workshop:
./mongodb/bin/mongo
Creating your project
Put the Java project into <location>/java3.0
cd < location>/java3.0
Run:
./gradlew idea
or
./gradlew eclipse
Open in your favourite IDE and you should be ready to start playing.
More help:
Emergency Gradle Procedure:
Download Gradle or get it off the USB stick
Extract to some suitable location. Mine’s in
/Library/Tools/gradle/
Put gradle on your path. On the Mac, that means adding the following line to ~/.bash_profile:
export PATH="/Library/Tools/gradle/bin:$PATH"