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This is developer documentation on how to build Kurator-Akka.  See also the FP-Akka: User Documentation

For further information, see the README files in each of the projects.

To Build Kurator-Akka:

You will need to have git, maven, java, and python installed to build kurator-akka.

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The kurator-akka project contains the framework for running kurator workflows written in yaml with code written in java or python. The kurator-validation project contains domain specific kurator components for quality control of biodiversity data.  kurator-jython is a hack for integration of python code in Kurator-Akka workflows using jython. 

You can also build the kurator-web web UI with:

  git clone https://gitub.com/kurator-org/kurator-web.git
  cd kurator-web
  mvn package play2:run

By default, the web UI will be accessible at http://localhost:9000

Adding Actors

Actors may be (among others).

1. Java classes that extend org.kurator.akka.AkkaActor and implement an onData(Object value) method.
2. Java classes that are wrapped with org.kurator.akka.PojoActor
3. Python classes that wrapped with org.kurator.akka.PythonClassActor.

Actors get yaml definitions that give them an ID, type, and class as defined in actors.yaml

Those IDs for actors are linked together into workflows in yaml workflow definition files.

We do not yet have a framework for adding new actor code as dependencies outside of a build of the framework (where generic actors go in kurator-akka and biodiversity domain buisness logic actors go in kurator-validation), but we intend to do this.