plantuml-server/README.md

PlantUML Server 
===============
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PlantUML Server is a web application to generate UML diagrams on-the-fly.

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To know more about PlantUML, please visit http://plantuml.sourceforge.net/.

Requirements
============

 * jre/jdk 1.6.0 or above
 * apache maven 3.0.2 or above

How to run the server
=====================

Just run:

```
mvn jetty:run
```

The server is now listing to [http://localhost:8080/plantuml](http://localhost:8080/plantuml).
In this way the server is run on an embedded jetty server. 

You can specify the port at which it runs:

```
mvn jetty:run -Djetty.port=9999"
```

How to run the server with Docker
=================================

```
docker build -t plantuml-server .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 plantuml-server
```

The server is now listing to [http://localhost:8080/plantuml](http://localhost:8080/plantuml).

You may specity the port in `-p` Docker command line argument.


How to generate the war
=======================

To build the war, just run:

```
mvn package
```

at the root directory of the project to produce plantuml.war in the target/ directory.