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64 bit machines and 64 bit JAVA

Most machines purchased in the last few years are going to be 64 bit capable and running 64 bit operating systems.  The problem is that most web browsers are still 32bit by default.  When you are prompted to download JAVA in most cases the resulting JAVA installation will be 32 bit. This means that your machine will only use a maximum of 1.3 gigabytes of memory even if you have 4, 8 or 16 gigbytes of memory in your machine.

This will cause the ResCarta Toolkit to install a 32 bit version for your machine with the same memory limitations.

To see what JAVA you have installed, open a command prompt/terminal  and type the following...

java -version

You should see something like ...

java version "1.8.0_181"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_181-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b11, mixed mode)

If your results do not include the  "64-Bit Server VM" statement then remove your currently installed JAVA and remove the ResCarta Toolkit if you have already installed it. (Don't worry we will keep the settings you already have).  Then go to 

https://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

and select the Windows Offline (64-bit)  or Linux x64 RPM or Mac OS X  from the page.

Also if running on Debian, Ubuntu, etc.

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

or if running Fedora, RedHat Enterprise, etc.

$ su -c "yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk"

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How do I create a website where I use portions of several different data stores?  I have three different RCDATA01 datastores on my windows machine and want to use just a portion of each datastore.

The answer is easy.  Use the windows mklink to create another datastore with only portions of the other datastores.

The implementation is a little less easy but not that difficult.

Step one: Create a new RCDATA01 directory somewhere on your machine.

C:\> Mkdir NewData

C:\> cd NewData

C:\NewData> Mkdir RCDATA01

C:\NewData> cd RCDATA01

Step two: Create links to some existing directories in the new datastore

C:\NewData\RCDATA01> mklink /J fpc00000 C:\Users\ResCarta\Desktop\ResCarta-Sample\RCDATA01\fpc00000

C:\NewData\RCDATA01> mklink /J wionrfi0 D:\RCDATA01\wionrfi0

or to use just one institution's data

C:\NewData\RCDATA01> mkdir wecv0000

C:\NewData\RCDATA01> cd wecv0000

C:\NewData\RCDATA01\wecv0000> mklink /J 20121211 C:\ResCarta-Sample\RCDATA01\wecv0000\20121211

C:\NewData\RCDATA01\wecv0000> mklink /J 20130108 C:\ResCarta-Sample\RCDATA01\wecv0000\20130108

Step three: Start your Collection manager and open C:\NewData\RCDATA01\

Create your collections and add what ever items you may like.

Save the Collection metadata and close the Collecion manager

Step four: Start your indexer and create an index in C:\NewData\RCDATA01\

Step five: Add a new ResCarta-Web application to your web server and point its data source to C:\NewData\RCDATA01\

Yes, Virginia, you can do this with Linux and OSX as well using symbolic links.

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July 29, 2021

After upgrading or moving on to Ubuntu 20.04.2 the Data Conversion Tool fails using the tesseract module. 

You will encounter an error like...

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February 19, 2013

Mac OSX users may have had a hard time with image viewing since the last JAVA update.  We have a fix ready for you in a snapshot release.

The bug would not allow images from pdfs and some jpg files from displaying properly in the Metadata Creation Tool.  We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

The fix can be found at the downloads page or just click here.