DESCRIPTION A Twitter clone based on GWT (front-end) and Cassandra (data persistence). (Actually, it is a Twitter clone clone since the idea is based on https://github.com/ericflo/twissandra.git and https://github.com/jhermes/twissjava.git.)

AUTHOR Markus Klems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany

INTENDED USE Demonstration of Cassandra programming in Java; learning by doing. The intention is not to provide a real-world Twitter clone ;-) You are advised not to use this code in production. I give no warranties whatsoever.

INSTALL & CONFIGURE Currently there is no Maven POM or any other build script. Everything comes as a big Eclipse project with all jars included. These are the steps to get up and running:

1) Server: Install and run Cassandra 0.7 (tested with beta 3). 2) Front-end: Install and configure GWT (tested with 2.1.0). If you use Eclipse, I suggest the Eclipse plug-in available on http://code.google.com/eclipse/. Then you can start and stop a local GWT test server by simply right click on on the Eclipse project > "Run as Web application". Should work out of the box. 3) Adjust default configurations in enum edu.kit.aifb.cass.shared.CassandraParam.java if necessary.