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Re: Help with running taste-demo on mahout-examples-0.7-SNAPSHOT.jarManuel Blechschmidt 2012-05-19, 10:53
Hello Dhananjay,
my github projects shows how to bundle a recommender as part of a Java EE 6 application. I am also using EJBs as REST and SOAP examples therefore a normal servlet container like Tomcat or Jetty won't be enough to run the example. You will need a complete application server like Glassfish 3 (bundled), JBoss, Weblogic etc. There are a lot of people who would says that they are bloated nevertheless it is quite easy to work with them.
So the facebook-recommender-example is not a plain web application it requires at least EJB light support.
You can see the basic architecture for the system here:
https://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo/blob/master/docs/RecommenderArchitecture.png
I would say that it is currently the most complete and easiest example how to use mahout in an own project.
It is about 50% Java EE 6, 10% Maven 3 and 40% Mahout.
Here are the reasons why I created it:
* Current examples do not bundle data (https://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo/blob/master/src/main/resources/DemoFriendsLikes.csv)
* Current examples do not offer a lot of interfaces (RMI, SOAP, REST)
* Current examples do not work out of the box and require configuration which you can't do if you are not a mahout expert
Further I would recommend Mahout in Action http://manning.com/owen/ for more examples. Actually I never read it because it wasn't available yet when I started with mahout.
Have a great saturday
Manuel
On 18.05.2012, at 23:09, Dhananjay Sampath wrote:
> Thanks Sean, for the super quick response!
> I wish I asked this question 3 days ago !
>
> Ok, so I have to package my own recommender. Got it. The only place where I
> found some instructions on packaging a (custom/example) recommender is
> Manuel's response to Ben on the User archives (
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/201203.mbox/%[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E
> ).
> Is that the best source right now or is there a more recent version of a
> How-to for web packaging of a recommender ?
>
> Again, thanks for your help ! Really appreciate it.
>
> best,
> DJ
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Sean Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> (You can use -DskipTests in Maven. You don't need to run the very
>> lengthy tests.)
>>
>> The bad news is that this example only worked in 0.5, and was removed
>> in 0.6. The underlying pieces are still there, you just would have to
>> assemble the WAR yourself.
>>
>> I'll try to figure out how to remove this; I didn't know this was
>> still posted anywhere.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Dhananjay Sampath
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi mahout-devs/mahout-users,
>>>
>>> I am here stuck on trying to get the mahout taste app demo working and
>>> could really use some help. I know that several people have come before
>> me
>>> asking the same question and I have gone through almost all of them and
>>> have met with little success.
>>>
>>> I followed all of the instructions from (
>>> http://mahout.apache.org/taste.html#demo) and have managed to installed
>>> mahout.
>>> Upto Step 5 - things are jim and dandy.
>>> * Step 5 - runs all of the tests (for hours) but finished without
>> creating
>>> a grouplens.jar file.
>>>
>>> ? On step 3 do I have to create that entire directory structure ? No
>>> directories after trunk/ exists by default - in which case I believe the
>>> document should add that we should create a directory with a mkdir -p
>>> command.
>>> ? I tried using the mahout-examples-0.7-SNAPSHOT.jar instead of a
>>> grouplens.jar in the trunk/examples/target/ directory, as that was the
>> only
>>> other jar that was created but met with little success. Should I create
>> the
>>> grouplens.jar somehow?
>>>
>>> So in short,
>>> 1. I created the entire directory structure by hand.
>>> 2. Copied the .dat files in to the newly created location.
>>> 3. With no grouplens.jar file, I copied mahout-examples.....jar file into
Manuel Blechschmidt
Dortustr. 57
14467 Potsdam
Mobil: 0173/6322621
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Manuel_B
my github projects shows how to bundle a recommender as part of a Java EE 6 application. I am also using EJBs as REST and SOAP examples therefore a normal servlet container like Tomcat or Jetty won't be enough to run the example. You will need a complete application server like Glassfish 3 (bundled), JBoss, Weblogic etc. There are a lot of people who would says that they are bloated nevertheless it is quite easy to work with them.
So the facebook-recommender-example is not a plain web application it requires at least EJB light support.
You can see the basic architecture for the system here:
https://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo/blob/master/docs/RecommenderArchitecture.png
I would say that it is currently the most complete and easiest example how to use mahout in an own project.
It is about 50% Java EE 6, 10% Maven 3 and 40% Mahout.
Here are the reasons why I created it:
* Current examples do not bundle data (https://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo/blob/master/src/main/resources/DemoFriendsLikes.csv)
* Current examples do not offer a lot of interfaces (RMI, SOAP, REST)
* Current examples do not work out of the box and require configuration which you can't do if you are not a mahout expert
Further I would recommend Mahout in Action http://manning.com/owen/ for more examples. Actually I never read it because it wasn't available yet when I started with mahout.
Have a great saturday
Manuel
On 18.05.2012, at 23:09, Dhananjay Sampath wrote:
> Thanks Sean, for the super quick response!
> I wish I asked this question 3 days ago !
>
> Ok, so I have to package my own recommender. Got it. The only place where I
> found some instructions on packaging a (custom/example) recommender is
> Manuel's response to Ben on the User archives (
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/mahout-user/201203.mbox/%[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E
> ).
> Is that the best source right now or is there a more recent version of a
> How-to for web packaging of a recommender ?
>
> Again, thanks for your help ! Really appreciate it.
>
> best,
> DJ
>
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Sean Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> (You can use -DskipTests in Maven. You don't need to run the very
>> lengthy tests.)
>>
>> The bad news is that this example only worked in 0.5, and was removed
>> in 0.6. The underlying pieces are still there, you just would have to
>> assemble the WAR yourself.
>>
>> I'll try to figure out how to remove this; I didn't know this was
>> still posted anywhere.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Dhananjay Sampath
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi mahout-devs/mahout-users,
>>>
>>> I am here stuck on trying to get the mahout taste app demo working and
>>> could really use some help. I know that several people have come before
>> me
>>> asking the same question and I have gone through almost all of them and
>>> have met with little success.
>>>
>>> I followed all of the instructions from (
>>> http://mahout.apache.org/taste.html#demo) and have managed to installed
>>> mahout.
>>> Upto Step 5 - things are jim and dandy.
>>> * Step 5 - runs all of the tests (for hours) but finished without
>> creating
>>> a grouplens.jar file.
>>>
>>> ? On step 3 do I have to create that entire directory structure ? No
>>> directories after trunk/ exists by default - in which case I believe the
>>> document should add that we should create a directory with a mkdir -p
>>> command.
>>> ? I tried using the mahout-examples-0.7-SNAPSHOT.jar instead of a
>>> grouplens.jar in the trunk/examples/target/ directory, as that was the
>> only
>>> other jar that was created but met with little success. Should I create
>> the
>>> grouplens.jar somehow?
>>>
>>> So in short,
>>> 1. I created the entire directory structure by hand.
>>> 2. Copied the .dat files in to the newly created location.
>>> 3. With no grouplens.jar file, I copied mahout-examples.....jar file into
Manuel Blechschmidt
Dortustr. 57
14467 Potsdam
Mobil: 0173/6322621
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Manuel_B
