devon4j creating a project

Table of Contents

• Introduction
  • Command Line Interface
  • Graphical User Interface

Introduction

In this chapter you will learn to create a workspace and create a project using the CLI or the GUI. When using devon, each project has its own workspace and can be edited by different instances of the IDE, e.g. eclipse.

Command Line Interface

• Go to your Devon-dist. folder. Open console.bat

• Execute: cd workspaces

• Execute: devon workspace create -workspace MyWS

• If the job is finished, use CTRL+C to and answer y to the question

• Execute: cd MyWS

• Execute: devon devon4j create –p and insert the following entries.

  • serverpath: hit Enter. (So it will be the current directory).

  • servername: myServer (or any name you like).

  • packagename: com.capgemini.myServer

  • groupid: com.capgemini

  • version: 1.0

  • dbtype: h2

• Execute: update-all-workspaces.bat from your devon-dist. folder.

• Execute: cd MyServer

• Execute: mvn install (installs the Maven project).

• Execute: devon devon4j run –port 8081

ℹ️	There are two commands devon and devcon. Any of these two commands can be used. With the -h option you will always get help, e.g. devon -h or devon workspaces -h.

We see later, how to access these server. For now just use ctr+c to stop it from running.

Graphical User Interface

• Open: console.bat

• Go to your workspaces directory.

• Execute : devcon -g

• The GUI should open. Open workspaces select "create".

• Insert: MyProject. Click "Start".

• Click "back".

• Open "devon4j". Select "create".

  • serverpath: ../MyProject/Servers

  • servername: mp

  • packagename: com.devonfw.application.mp

  • groupid: com.devonfw.mp

  • version: v4

  • dbtype: h2

• Press: "Start"

• From you devon-dist. folder execute : update-all-workspaces.bat

• From your devon-dist. folder execute: eclipse-jumpthequeue.bat

• Eclipse instance should open.

Now you know how to create a project with devon/devcon.

ℹ️	You can also create new projects: from Eclipse see how

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