Creating New App

Creating a New Application

AribaWeb includes new project templates that make getting started with your first application quite easy.

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Before Getting Started

Open a shell window (e.g. Windows cygwin/MKS window, or MacOS X / Linux Terminal)
Make sure that you have the bin directory of you aribaweb installation in your PATH. e.g. if you unpacked AW in your home directory:
```
export PATH="~/aribaweb-5.0/bin:$PATH"
```

Creating a Widgets App

Let's say we want to create a simple, one page, "guest book" sample.

First, change your current working directory to where you'd like to put your new project.
```
cd ~/projects
```
Now we'll run the AW create-project command to create our project from a template
```
% aw create-project
```

At the prompts, choose the "Basic Widgets Application" and enter reasonable values for the application name ("GuestBook") and source code package ("app")

Please choose a template from among the following:
    [1] Basic AribaWeb/Widgets Application
           A starter template for a basic (non-database)
           AribaWeb application that uses the Widgets library.
    ...
Selection [1]:
1


Enter name/path for your project (directory) [MyApp]:
GuestBook


Java package to use for your AW components/pages [app]:
app

cd into your new project and run it
```
cd GuestBook
aw ant launch
```

The browser will automatically open and connect to your app.

Take a look at the source code in your IDE / Text editor of choice.
- app/Main.awl is the AW template for the main page
- app/Main.java is the corresponding component definition
- build.xml is your build files. Note that it includes a parent build file from your AW installation (the AW_HOME environment varaible is being set for you by the "aw" command that you used to run Ant
Try out modifications to the files
- add some basic HTML to the .awl file and refresh the page in your browser

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