Saturday, June 1, 2013

Creating the project in Netbeans with Maven

Modern software development is partly about the tools you use. Just don't insist yours is better with other programmers unless you want to start a religious war.

I use Maven. Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. It's easy to install and use and Netbeans, my preferred IDE, can work with it by default unlike the other leading IDE which needs a plugin.  

Once you've installed Maven, you'll need to configure Netbeans to use the installed one unless you want to use the bundled one. You can do that via the menu Tools -> Options -> Java(tab) -> Maven. It should auto-detect the Maven home if you installed Maven correctly. After this, you're pretty much set.

Project from Archetype
Now all you need to do is create our Tapestry5.

Create a new project and choose Maven and then Project from Archetype.

We will be using the quickstart Tapestry5 project to get us rolling fairly quickly. The current version should 5.3.7.

On the "next" window, set the values to the following:
  • Group ID: org.apache.tapestry
  • Version: 5.3.7
  • Artifact ID: quickstart
  • Repository: http://tapestry.apache.org
You should be able to figure out the next page. After you clicked on that Finish button, you should see the your freshly created Tapestry5 project. 

Before you can run a Tapestry5 project, you need to satisfy a sample requirement which is a create a custom  Maven goal. You'll need this if you want to use the Live Reloading feature. I already wrote a how-to on this in an old blog entry. Just do steps 1, 2 and 3. You don't need to do the rest.

The Tapestry5 running
When you're done, you should be able to run the project and be able to open the web application in your favorite browser. See left. 

If you're wondering, I called my project tangled.

Next week, we'll be working on your database.

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