Elda Common Webapp

Elda is a Java webapp implementation of the Linked Data API. This page is the root page of Elda's Common Webapp (CW) minimal web application. You've probably got here by dropping the elda-common.war file into your local running Tomcat's webapps directory.

The CW is a single WAR file that fetches its LDA configurations from a "well-known" location in the file system. Keeping the LDA configuration files outside the CW means that you can update them without having to build a new WAR file — you just need to restart the webapp. Similarly, you can update the CW with a new (compatible) version without having to disturb the configuration files or build a new webapp.

When a CW installed with context path {APP} requires configuration files, it looks in /etc/elda/configs/{APP}_*ttl. * is a wildcard match of any number of non-/ characters; a single CW can load multiple LDA configurations, and different CWs look for different configuration files.

Elda Standalone Jar

You can also read the quickstart documentation for the elda-standalone jar: quickstart, an alternative way of getting started with Elda.