Manual Install of CDF when not using Pedro's installation project:

1. Select form project-cdf/patches either the folder target-preconfiguredinstall or target-preconfiguredinstall-tomcat, depending if you are running JBoss or Tomcat.

2.Copy all files from the subfolders of target-preconfigured... into the respective subfolders on your machine. 

(CAUTION: Do not copy web.xml, but add only the tags (2) related to the Dashboards.jsp to your web.xml)

3. Copy the Dashbods folder from project-cdf/solution to your solution repository

4. Copy all files from the subfolders in project-cdf/patches/project-cdf/solution to the respective subfolders in your solution repository

That should be it!