Facebook Demo Recommender based on Java EE 7 and Mahout

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This project is a demo of how you can use mahout to build a cool musician recommender for your friends. It includse everything what you need including a modern REST and a conservative SOAP interface. In the end a web application archive will be generated.

The presentation can be found here:

http://de.slideshare.net/ManuelB86/how-to-build-a-recommender-system-based-on-mahout-and-java-ee

Here is how you get this working

The embedded glassfish jar will be about 81mb. So be a little bit patient until it is loaded.

git clone git://github.com/ManuelB/facebook-recommender-demo.git
cd facebook-recommender-demo
mvn install
mvn embedded-glassfish:run

Open the following URL in your browser:

http://localhost:8010/facebook-recommender-demo/FacebookRecommender/person/Manuel%20Blechschmidt

You will need the following requirements to get the application working:

• git (http://git-scm.com/download)
• Java 8 JDK (http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp)
• Maven 3 (http://maven.apache.org/)
• Java EE 7 compatible Container e.g. Glassfish 4.1 (http://glassfish.java.net/, Glassfish is bundled)

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