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License information

The OS.bee Software Factory is distributed under a commercial license.

The product itself is based on the OSBP Software Factory which is an "Eclipse Project". In addition, there are many other open source projects combined and the whole bunch of license used is listed "here".

OS.bee Software Factory

Please install OS.bee Software Factory first. Introduction of installation could be found here.

Generation of MyFirstApp

Generate MyFirstApp

• MyFirstApp could be generated from Eclipse: in Project Explore, right click the mouse -> New -> Other.
  
  

• Select OSBP Projects -> My First App -> Next.
  
  

• Now you start the installation window for MyFirstApp:
  
  

• The default JDNI Data Source is h2memory, which save all data in memory. If you want to use other JNDI Data Source, e.g. MySQL or Oracle, you can change it later.
  
  

• Set for the Mock Data generation.
  
  

• Choose which location you would lick to save the files of MyFirstApp. You can use the default directory:
  
  

• or your own directory:
  
  

• The XMS Memory is usually ¼ of total physical memory.
  
  

• Click finish to start the generation step:
  
  

• When the window disappears, you could see in Project Explorer, all projects of MyFirstApp are established.
  
  

• Please notice till now the progress is not complete finish, normally it's still building workspace (see the right bottom corner), wait until it completed.
  
  

• When the <Building Workspace> symbol disappears, the generation of MyFirstApp is finish. Project Explorer should be looked like this:
  
  

Configuration

Change Product Configuration

• The first step of the configuration is changing the Product Configuration from workspace to org.osbp.myfirstapp.product in Preferences -> OSBP Application Configuration. Please notice that, this will be not saved, please do this step every time before you start to configure MyFirstApp.
  
  

• The Desktop URL link could be found here.
  
  http://localhost:8081/myfirstapp
  
  
  

Detail Configuration

• Click OSBP Application Configuration to extend the tree.
• One important step before start MyFirstApp is Verify Dependencies, which at the end of the tree. If you see all green points, it means MyFirstApp is ready to start without dependencies’ error; if you see the red point, fix the error before starting.
  
  

• If you want to do the detail configuration for Authentication, Bpm Engine, Controls, Data Sources, Email, External Data Sources, Localization, PersistenceUnits, Project Wizard and Service Communication, you could read the following part. It is not necessary for starting MyFirstApp, otherwise, you can skip this part.

1. Configure Authentication
   
   
2. Configure Bpm Engine
   
   
3. Configure Controls
   
   
4. Configure Data Sources
   • All data sources could be set up here:
     
     
   • If you want to use other data sources, please configure it first. Click + to extend the tree, and then set all necessary information, e.g. Server Name, Server Port, Database Name, etc.
     
     
5. Configure Email
   
   
6. Configure External Data Sources
   
   
7. Configure Localization
   
   
8. Configure PersistenceUnits
   • All details about Persistence Units could be changed here.
     
     
   • Click + to extend the tree, and then you could change the data source, DDL Generation, etc.
     
     
     
     
9. Configure Project Wizard
   
   
10. Configure Service Communication
    
    

Start MyFirstApp

Launch Eclipse Application

• Open myfirstapp.product file from org.osbp.myfirstapp.product:
  
  

• We should check the validation first, please click the button on right top:
  
  

• No problems were detected means it is ready to run, otherwise fix the problem first.
  
  

• Now click Launch an Eclipse application to start MyFirstApp.
  
  

• Open "console" to see if the progress is finish, the last sentence should be TRIGGER DONE....
  
  

Start MyFirstApp in Browser

• Now you could start this page from your browser:

http://localhost:8081/myfirstapp

• Log in Page will be shown first.
  
  

Log in

• The log in details could be found in authentication.entitymock file in org.osbp.myfirstapp.model.entitymock\models\.
  
  

• Enter the user name and password in log in page, e.g. Charles, Charles, save the password and log in.
  
  

Welcome page

• Now you could see the Welcome page.
  
  

Menu list

• On the left top of the page, just beside AdminIT is the MENU button, click it to pop up the menu.
• There are 2 main entry: Menu and Persons.
  
  

Menu

• 3 subentries under Menu:
  • Persons:
    
    
    
    
  • Company:
    
    
    
    
  • Company group:
    
    
    
    

Persons

• Click the Persons entry, the table All person will be shown directly in the menu list.
  
  

Tab list

• On the right top of the page, there are some tabs, by clicking them, you could easily to switch the pages. Default tabs are OPEN and WELCOME.

OPEN

• OPEN tab is the first tab. Click it, the Open perspective menu will be shown. Perspectives such as Datainterchange, BI, BPM etc. could be selected here.
  
  

• TODO: the perspective pages should be added later.