This user manual describes the installation, configuration, and use of the KnowWEHeadless-
App. The application generates knowledge bases from a given wiki content
folder (or zip file of the folder) extracted from a conventional running KnowWE. The
application can be configured via command line arguments and does not itself need a
running conventional KnowWE or web service.
The provided application should be operated by experienced users having basic skills
in command line execution. The application was designed to be embedded into a
continuous process, for instance called by a script when a new knowledge base has to
be deployed. Since, the generated knowledge base heavily depends on the used wiki
content, the resulting knowledge base should be bundled, when filed into a version
control system. The proposed bundle is as follows:
1. The knowledge base as a d3web binary file.
2. The wiki content as a zip file.
The application comes in two installation variants: An executable java version and a
MS-Windows executable. For both variants the required libraries (lib) are included.
The application is started by double-clicking the executable file (jar or exe).
Alternatively, you can use the command line version for more options:
> java –jar KnowWE-Headless-App.jar OPTIONS
The available options are as follows (the default values are given in parentheses):
-w path to the wikicontent, zip or folder (wikicontent.zip)
-k articles containing a knowledge base to be saved
(if the parameter is not set, then all knowledge bases will be
saved to the save directory)
-sf file paths to where the knowledge bases will be saved
the first knowledge base will be saved to the first file, the
second knowledge base to the second file and so forth...
(if the parameter is not set, then all knowledge bases will be
saved to the save directory using the name of the knowledge
base article as the file name)
-sd directory to where knowledge bases will be saved if no file
paths are given (knowledgebases)
-h help
1. If you double-click the executable file, the application expects a zip file of the
wiki content folder with the name wikicontent.zip in the same folder as the
executable file.
2. If you double-click the executable, the application will save all knowledge
bases compiled in the articles of the wiki content to the folder
knowledgebases in the same folder as the executable file. The knowledge
bases will have the name of the article they are compiled on as the file name.
