Plex-XML Tutorial
From Plex-XML
Tutorial workflow: Plex-XML tutorial main page → Preparing your environment → Extract the tutorial from CVS → Restore the tutorial DB → Tutorial Plex → Tutorial Eclipse → Tutorial application user guide → Tutorial debug → Tutorial Log → Help text Wiki
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Before you start
- This tutorial assumes that you have installed Plex 5.5, Eclipse >=3.1, Java 5.0 and Apache Tomcat 5.5 on your workstation.
- If you are in doubt about any of this tools you should check the next section:
Prepare your environment
- See Preparing your environment for details.
- The tutorial uses a MS SQL-Server 2005 as default database. You should have access to a SQL-Server where you are able to restore the tutorial DB or you could install 'MS SQL-Server 2005 Express' on your workstation.
Extract the tutorial from CVS
- Before you can start playing with Plex and Eclipse you have to extract the Plex-XML tutorial project from the all about CVS server.
Restore the tutorial DB
- Open your Tutorial project in Eclipse and restore the prepared database from Database/MS_SQL_2005/Tutorial.bak to you MS SQL-Server.
Tutorial Plex
- In this part you are going to extent the basic Plex tutorial model by the Plex_XML pattern. Start here.
Tutorial Eclipse
- In this part you are going to prepare the Eclipse project for the first usage and build, deploy and test your first Plex-XML application. Start here.
Congratulations
- Your first Plex-XML application is ready to use.
- All existing informations like labels, field types, field length etc. are extracted via meta code from the Plex model. The security part with login and session handling is inherited by the Plex-XML pattern and the web design is the default from the XSLT's.
How to use the tutorial application
- Out of the box your application should look somewhat similar to this screen shot.
- But what features are coming out of the box with the tutorial application? Come on, give them a try.
- If you don't have your own application ready you can use this one: tutorial.plex-xml.com.
Next steps
Investigate XML and log files
While your tutorial runs in debug mode it will provide some XML and log files. These files can be very helpful if you are in doubt about the XML that is generated or in doubt about the performance of your application.
Enhance the Employee-FindBrowse by a new Format
- coming sooner or later...
Build a AJAX-Combo-Box for Projects
- coming sooner or later...
Build a AJAX-Suggest-Box for Employees
- coming sooner or later...
Create a Master-Detail
- coming sooner or later...
