Installation guide

##Option 1 - As Web application

###Installation prerequisites

• A Java Application Server such as Tomcat 8.x installed if you want to use Harvester as a web application
• A Geoportal 2.5.x instance if you plan to harvest to Geoportal 2.x

###Installation steps

• Deploy harvester.war to Tomcat (e.g. drop harvester.war into Tomcat webapps folder)
• Restart Tomcat if necessary
• Open Harvester application (e.g. http://localhost:8080/harvester)
• Run quick smoke test by following steps in Quick start guide

##Option 2 - As stand alone application ###Prerequisites

• JRE or JDK 8.x

###Installation steps

• Copy harvester.war to a destination folder
• Follow instructions in Command line interface to run the tool.