GnuMims is a web application built with the Grails (www.grails.org) web framework. 
To run from source a working Grails installation is required.
To run from WAR (web application archive) a working Java servlet (e.g: Tomcat) is required.

To run from source:
 - cd $projectdir
 - grails run-app

To run from war:
 - select and configure database.
 - deploy to Java application server as per server instructions.

See www.gnumims.org for more.
http://www.gnumims.org/trac/wiki/Installing