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title: "How to setup a Java Facebook Application"
date: 2010-12-07T23:17:15+00:00
author: "poornerd"
tags: ["facebook", "java"]
canonical: https://www.poornerd.com/2010/12/07/how-to-setup-a-java-facebook-application/
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First I discovered that there was an open source, Java based, Facebook Application which includes samples of the following:

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      Activity Feed
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      Like Button
    </li>
    <li>
      Recommendations
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    <li>
      Comments
    </li>
    <li>
      Facepile
    </li>
    <li>
      Live Stream
    </li>
    <li>
      Graph API
    </li>
    <li>
      OAuth v2
    </li>
  </ul>
</div>

Activity FeedLike ButtonRecommendationsCommentsFacepileLive StreamGraph APIOAuth v2

It is located at: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-webapp" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/code.google.com');" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-webapp</a>

So I followed the instructions, and checked it out with SVN into a local directory:

<pre class="brush: plain; title: ; notranslate" title="">svn checkout http://facebook-java-webapp.googlecode.com/svn/springwebmvc-hibernate/trunk/ facebook-java-webapp-read-only
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  <span style="color: #000000;">Then I edited the property file as described, to point to the local mysql database I setup with a user &#8220;facebook&#8221; and a database &#8220;facebook&#8221;.</span>
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  <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span>
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<pre class="brush: plain; title: ; notranslate" title="">emacs src/main/resources/facebook.properties
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  <p class="p2">
    Then I followd the instructions for setting up the database:
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    <span class="s2">http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-webapp/#Create_Database</span>
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    <span class="s2"><span style="color: #000000; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span></span>
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mvn -Pdb clean
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    I then setup the project:
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    <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span>
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mvn -Phibernate process-resources
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    <p class="p4">
      And finally ran it:
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      <span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span></span>
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mvn tomcat:run
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