Difference between revisions of "Running The Demo App"

Revision as of 20:36, 3 September 2006

The following steps launch two copies of the Higgins demo app, instantiate a "ProfileShare" context on each and share some simple vCard-like information (Name, address, etc.) between the two apps.

1. Folllow the instructions in the section entitled "System requirements and required plug-ins" here (as described, you'll need EMF, ECF and EODM)
2. Follow the instructions in the section entitled "Downloading Higgins from CVS" here. This gets the Higgins source from the Eclipse CVS.
3. Launch the Java Application configuration named 'ECF ServerApplication' with either Eclipse Run->Run... or Run->Debug... (The 'ECF ServerApplication' launch configuration is now part of the org.eclipse.higgins.context.profileshare project which you should have retreived from CVS above)
4. Launch the Eclipse Application configuration named Higgins Demo App 1 with either Run->Run... or Run->Debug...
5. Launch the Eclipse Application configuration named Higgins Demo App 2 with either Run->Run... or Run->Debug...

At this point you should have the ECF server running and two demo apps.

• On the first app click Context > New > ProfileShare - this will bring up the 'New Profile Share context' dialogue box:
  • Type "ps1" into the field "Name for new profile sharing network"
  • Type "demo1" into the field "Your alias within this profile sharing network"
  • Type "A" into user name (this is ignored)
  • Type "A" into the password (this is ignored)
  • Leave the other fields alone
  • Click Finish

• In the context tree view, expand the root node and then expand the 'ps1' node
• Select the 'demo1' leaf node (facet)
• In the How I'm Seen tab, enter some information into the various fields
• Click the Save Changes icon (looks like a clipboard)
• Click Context > Sync
• In the second app click Context > New > ProfileShare - this will bring up the 'New Profile Share context' dialogue box:
  • Type "ps1" into the field "Name for new profile sharing network"
  • Type "demo2" into the field "Your alias within this profile sharing network"
  • Type "A" into user name (this is ignored)
  • Type "A" into the password (this is ignored)
  • Leave the other fields alone
  • Click Finish

• Select 'ps1' in the context navigator view
• Click on People > Create Facet
• The create facet name dialogue will appear:
  • Type "demo1" in the "The facet name" field
  • Click OK

• Notice that if you select 'demo1' in the Contexts tree (in the second app), the information shown in What I See in is whatever was entered originally in the first app.

After you edit/update information about your app's facet (e.g. demo1 for the first app and demo2 for the second), you must remember to both Save Changes and Context > Sync in order to propagate the changes.

BUG: The How I'm Seen and What I See tabbed views do not refresh themselves properly. You must select the facet in the Context view at the left each time to force a refresh.