Problem installing on Mac - help would be greatly appreciated

[jimjoes]

Hi,

I've been looking for a way to generate a lot of smallish csv files with realistic geographically distributed EPOS purchase data for a while as the basis for a small project I'm working on.

I found this project which looks absolutely ideal - great work!

Unfortunately, while I am a reasonable javascript developer I'm a complete novice (i.e. idiot) when it comes to Java. I've managed to get maven to build the project, but where it says 'launch the main static method in edu.nyu.dtl.synner.SynnerServerApplication' in the readme to run the server, I have no idea how to go about that on a Mac :(

My ultimate goal is to run this on a schedule in an AWS lambda function, but first I'm planning on using the GUI to establish the specificatiuon that will be used to produce files automatically and pop them into an s3 bucket.

I've tried compiling to jar and running that using the java jre command, but that doesn't work and pointing the jre at the compiled class just gives me a java.lang.ClassNotFoundException error.

Any help you could graciously provide would be hugely appreciated! I'm sure it's something basic, but as I say, I'm a complete novice with java development.

[aneesha]

I have created a fork and included a Dockerfile for compiling and running locally with instructions. https://github.com/aneesha/synner