My first app

General information

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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.

How to generate MyFirstApp

MyFirstApp could be generated from Eclipse.

in Project Explorer, right click the mouse -> New -> Other.
Select OSBP Projects -> My First App -> Next.
Now you start the generation window for MyFirstApp:
- Click Next.
The JDNI Data Source could be set up on this page. Click Next.
- The default value 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. Click Next.
Choose which location you would lick to save the files of MyFirstApp.
- You can use the default directory:
- or your own directory:
- Click Next.
The XMS Memory is usually ¼ of total physical memory. The desktop link which will be used late by starting app could be also find here.
- 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:

How to start MyFirstApp

Now we are ready to start MyFirstApp.

If you want to change any setting before starting the app, this will help : How to configure 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.
Click OK.
- 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

Log in Page will be shown first.

Enter the user name and password in log in page, e.g. Admin, Admin, 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.

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.

How to configure MyFirstApp

MyFirstApp could be started without configuration, this part is optional. If you want to change the default settings, continue to read.

Select OSBP Application Project

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.

Configure Authentication.
Configure Bpm Engine.
Configure Controls.
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.
Configure Email.
Configure External Data Sources.
Configure Localization.
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.
Configure Project Wizard.
Configure Service Communication.
Configure Verify Dependencies.
- 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.