Link to Orbeon Studio docs

Ben,

 

Since studio is out of date it may be best to use Eclipse directly to build the OPS source and try running it under your favorite web server.  I would use an Eclpise CVS plug in to get the source.  Also make sure you have apache ant installed so that you can build OPS.  You can build ops without using eclipse, but I think it is better the get ant working to build OPS inside of eclipse for one stop shopping.  Once you get OPS to build you will notice a build dierctory with both a ditrib directory, whihc contains the .war file, and a ops-war directory, which contains all of the files of the war file in their extracted form.

 

OPS needs a servlet container to run in

Since I use tomcat , i am trying to get OPS to run inside of eclipse using the com.sysdeo.eclipse.tomcat_3.1.0 plug in to control tomat.  I downloaded and followed the install instructions

<a href="http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatplugin" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatplugin .  You could also use Jetty if you want.

Next I created a new configuration using the tomcat plugin .

Yuo need to slect debug/run from the Run menu and add a new JaveApplication whihc has a subtype called tomcat if you have the plug-in.

 

There are two placess to make tomcat settings in Eclipse:

In WIndow->Preferences->tomcat

and in Project->Preferences->tomcat (once you have setup a run configuration)

 

I set the main class to org.orbeon.oxf.main.OPS

 

whihc is currently giving me an error when I try to launch the debugger

 

usage: Pipeline URL is required

-r,--root Resource manager root

I dont know what this means , but may someone can finish the instructions off or you can figure it out and post back?

 

References:

 

<a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ectom/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ectom/

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Li [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:37 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [ops-users] Link to Orbeon Studio docs

Hi there!

Just a comment from a noob who is just starting to learn OPS. There should be some comment somewhere on the orbeon website that there is documentation/tutorials available for Orbeon Studio in the

studio\plugins\orbeon.oxfstudio.eclipse_1.2.2.200503031232\doc

folder of the distribution. I know, It should be accessible from Help  menu, but first, it didn't work for me, and second, its not obvious to developers unfamiliar with Eclipse and Eclipse Plugins. I spent *quite* some time googling and searching around before actually finding it and figuring out how to use Orbeon studio (ie simply loading and example project and getting it to run). It is really not that obvious (not to me anyway) how to do that just by looking at the interface. A lot of new concepts, from both Eclipse and OPS.

Interestingly enough, also, the orbeon site makes (almost) no mention of orbeon studio, or the xforms blog, which seems to me is pretty strange.

just my 2c. =)

incidentally, does anyone have numbers on the userbase/community (more justification to give to the PHBs)
and are there any other resources besides the usual docs and this mailing list?

Thanks!!

cheers,
ben

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Hi Ben,

Just to clarify the "out of date" thing, Studio contains a copy of
PresentationServer, and that copy is out of date. This only has an
impact on the File / New / OPS Application Project feature. All the
other features of Studio work fine with the latest version of
PresentationServer, and in fact I am using Studio here every day :).

The workaround for the File / New / OPS Application Project feature is
to download the version of PresentationServer you want to use, and do
a File / Import / OPS Application Project from WAR.

Alex

On 3/17/06, Benjamin Li <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks RIchard.
>
> Ok,
> I think I might be missing something. Is the entire studio thing out of date
> and no longer used to develop OPS applications, or just the internal tomcat
> (or whatever is used) instance that is out of date? Or both?
>
> I will try what u outlined in the meantime.
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers,
> ben
>
>
> On 3/17/06, Richard Braman < [hidden email]> wrote:
> >
>
>
> Ben,
>
> Since studio is out of date it may be best to use Eclipse directly to build
> the OPS source and try running it under your favorite web server.  I would
> use an Eclpise CVS plug in to get the source.  Also make sure you have
> apache ant installed so that you can build OPS.  You can build ops without
> using eclipse, but I think it is better the get ant working to build OPS
> inside of eclipse for one stop shopping.  Once you get OPS to build you will
> notice a build dierctory with both a ditrib directory, whihc contains the
> .war file, and a ops-war directory, which contains all of the files of the
> war file in their extracted form.
>
> OPS needs a servlet container to run in
> Since I use tomcat , i am trying to get OPS to run inside of eclipse using
> the com.sysdeo.eclipse.tomcat_3.1.0 plug in to control tomat.  I downloaded
> and followed the install instructions
> http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatplugin .  You could
> also use Jetty if you want.
>
> Next I created a new configuration using the tomcat plugin .
> Yuo need to slect debug/run from the Run menu and add a new JaveApplication
> whihc has a subtype called tomcat if you have the plug-in.
>
> There are two placess to make tomcat settings in Eclipse:
> In WIndow->Preferences->tomcat
> and in Project->Preferences->tomcat (once you have setup a run
> configuration)
>
> I set the main class to org.orbeon.oxf.main.OPS
>

> whihc is currently giving me an error when I try to launch the debugger

>
>
>
> usage: Pipeline URL is required
>
> -r,--root Resource manager root
>
> I dont know what this means , but may someone can finish the instructions
> off or you can figure it out and post back?
>
> References:
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ectom/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Li [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:37 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] Link to Orbeon Studio docs
>
>
> Hi there!
>
> Just a comment from a noob who is just starting to learn OPS. There should
> be some comment somewhere on the orbeon website that there is
> documentation/tutorials available for Orbeon Studio in the
>
> studio\plugins\orbeon.oxfstudio.eclipse_1.2.2.200503031232\doc
>
> folder of the distribution. I know, It should be accessible from Help  menu,
> but first, it didn't work for me, and second, its not obvious to developers
> unfamiliar with Eclipse and Eclipse Plugins. I spent *quite* some time
> googling and searching around before actually finding it and figuring out
> how to use Orbeon studio (ie simply loading and example project and getting
> it to run). It is really not that obvious (not to me anyway) how to do that
> just by looking at the interface. A lot of new concepts, from both Eclipse
> and OPS.
>
> Interestingly enough, also, the orbeon site makes (almost) no mention of
> orbeon studio, or the xforms blog, which seems to me is pretty strange.
>
> just my 2c. =)

>

> incidentally, does anyone have numbers on the userbase/community (more
> justification to give to the PHBs)
> and are there any other resources besides the usual docs and this mailing
> list?
>
> Thanks!!
>
> cheers,
> ben
>
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