>From that link on Recommender+Documentation it appears it should be straightforward to get the movielens dataset and start up an example recommender with
`mvn jetty:run` However I got a missing plugin error when I tried it out that indicates we don't have Jetty configured properly to run: [ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'jetty' in the current project and in the plugin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repositories [local (/home/akm/.m2/repository), central ( http://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)] -> [Help 1] On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Ahmed Kamal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all , > > > > > > > Greetings, I'm building an asp.net application that should recommend > items to users. I decided to use Mahout for its popularity but I now want > to expose Mahout recommender as a web service so I can use it in my web app > or any mobile apps that could be developed later. > > > In Mahout Documentation ( > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Recommender+Documentation) > , I found this > > > A Mahout recommender can also be run as an external server, which may be > the only option for non-Java applications. It can be exposed as a web > application via org.apach.mahout.cf.taste.web.RecommenderServlet, and your > application can then access recommendations via simple HTTP requests and > response. See above, and see the javadoc for details. > > What should I do in order to be able to expose mahout as a web service ? > Unfortunately , I don't have much knowledge in this field or in Java > servlet but I writes Java SE. Can you help ? > > Note : I don't want to use Hadoop as I'm not going to deal with millions > of users and also this is my graduation project not a commercial product. > Thanks in advance, > > > > > Regards , > > Ahmed Kamal Abdel-fatah > > 4th Year Computer Engineering Student > > E-mail : [email protected]
