README for "Application Composer"

Congratulations! You've taken your first step in using "Application Composer".

Getting started

1) Launching Application Composer

Using Application Composer is the easiest way to start. There are several ways to launch Application Composer :

On Windows : use the desktop shortcut or the start menu shortcut for Application Composer.
On Linux : in a Console, go in the "Application Composer" directory of your installation then type the following command :
>> ./Application Composer_linux.sh
On Mac OSX : in a Console, go in the "Application Composer" directory of your installation then type the following command :
>> ./Application Composer_mac.sh

2) Create or Open an application

Once Application Composer is launched, it is possible to select a demo application HOTEL or to create your own application.

HOTEL Application
To open the demo application Hotel, select it in the Application Composer opening screen.

Create a new application
To create a new application, click on the creation icon, then enter an identifier and a name for your application, and finally choose a save directory.

3) Modeling the application

If you chose to open HOTEL, you can modifiy the existing model.

You can refer to our tutorials and to models documentation for more information on application modeling with W4 applications.

4) Launching the application

Choose the wiewer to launch the application the "Run" menu in Application Composer.

WARNING : to launch in light client mode, Tomcat must be configured in the "Preferences" menu of the toolbar.
If using the standard Tomcat installation, you just need to enter the path to its root directory.
If that installation was modified, you must enter :

the applications directory (usually <TOMCAT_DIR>/webapps) ;
the bin directory (usually <TOMCAT_DIR>/bin) ;
the start file (usually startup.bat on Windows or startup.sh on Linux) ;
the stop file (usually shutdown.bat on Windows or shutdown.sh on Linux).

Documentation

Tutorials and User's manual

You can refer to "Developing an Application with Studio.pdf" that describes the HOTEL demonstration application.
You can refer to "Studio Quick Start.pdf", a tutorial that explain how to create a simple application within Application Composer.
You can refer to "Studio User's manual.pdf" for more informations on Application Composer use.

Javadoc, Models documentation

You can refer to the Javadoc for more informations on API. This documentation is useful if you want to add specific behavior to your application.
You can refer to the Data Model Documentation for more informations on data model.
You can refer to the Views Model Documentation for more informations on views model.
This documentation is useful to create specific views.
You can refer to the Generic Actions Documentation for more informations on generic actions.
This documentation describes all generic actions.

Requirements

In order to work, Application Composer needs :

JDK 1.5.0 (http://wwww.java.sun.com)
Eclipse V3.2 or above(http://wwww.eclipse.org)
Windows XP or Vista (http://wwww.microsoft.com) or a Linux distribution core 2.4.3 and above

Included softwares

This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/) under Apache 2.0 license :

Apache TomCat version 5.5.27
Fop version 0.95
Struts version 1.1
Velocity version 1.5
Velocity version 1.6.4
MVEL version 2.0.16
Apache commons (versions diverses)
Apache Axis 2 version 1.5.3
Apache Geronimo
Stax
javassist version 3.9
Spring Framework version 3.0.6
Apache Log4J version 1.2.15

This product includes software developed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, LGPL 2.1 licence (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreechart/) :

JFreeChart version 1.0.13
JCommon version 1.0.16

This product includes software developed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence LGPL 2.1 licence (http://www.hibernate.org/) :

Hibernate 3.3.2

This product includes software developed by IBM (http://www.eclipse.org/) under CPL 1.0 license :

SWT version 3.5

This product includes software developed by MiG InfoCom (http://www.miginfocom.com/) under BSD license :

MigLayout version 3.7.1

This product includes software developed by Heng Yuan (http://jscook.yuanheng.org/JSCookMenu/) under license :

JSCookMenu v2.0.3

This product includes software developed under the terms of the MIT License :

jQuery kiketable.colsizable plugin version 1.1 - Copyright 2007-2009 - Enrique Melendez Estrada
jQuery.layout version 1.3.0 RC29.7 - Copyright 2010 Fabrizio Balliano - kevin Dalman
jQuery.mb.components version 1.2 - Copyright 2001-2010 Matteo Bicocchi - Open lab srl, Firenze - Italy
jquery.dragtable.js - Copyright http://danvk.org/dragtable/
jQuery UI Multiselect version 0.51-y - Copyright Michael Aufreiter, Yanick Rochon

This product includes software developed under the terms of the Creative Commons 2.5 License :

This product includes software developed under the terms of the New BSD License :

This product includes software developed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License :

CKEditor version 3.6.1