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Scout/Tutorial/3.7/Minicrm/New Eclipse Scout Project
This page belongs to the Minicrm Step-by-Step Tutorial. It explains how setup a new Eclipse Scout project. You need to The Scout documentation has been moved to https://eclipsescout.github.io/. in order to continue.
We need to create a new Scout Project and switch to the Scout Perspective. When we're done we can run the server, verify that it is running using a web browser, and we can run the client using either the Swing or the SWT user interface.
The client will not contain anything, but this will demonstrate that our infrastructure is working.
Make sure you start with a new workspace.
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Create a new Eclipse Scout project
If you haven't done so yet, change to the Scout Perspective.
Right-click on the folder Scout Projects and choose New Scout Project in order to create a new Scout project.
Use eclipse.org.minicrm for the project name.
The project name will be used for all the plugins created. They'll get names like eclipse.org.minicrm.client and eclipse.org.minicrm.server. The project alias will be used for the servlet running on the server. Once you started the server you'll be able to contact it at http://localhost:8080/minicrm. Thus, the alias will be visible to the outside world.
If you expand the project tree it will have nodes for client, shared and server as well as nodes for the two user interfaces, ui.swing and ui.swt.
If you try to start the swing client in Mac OS 10.6, this might fail. To fix this go to the run configuration of the swing client. In the tab Arguments you have to remove -ws ${target.ws} from the program arguments and -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts from the VM arguments.
Start the Server
Click on the server node. This will show two products, a production product and a development product. Click the green arrow of the development product to start it.
The two products allow you to specify two different config files. This allows you to set system properties determining which databases to connect to, which log levels to use, etc.
Test the Server
To test if the server is running properly, go to http://localhost:8080/minicrm/process. To log in, use admin as username and manager as password. There you should see a page with information about the server. The login information is defined in the config.ini file of the server product, click on open product and then change to the configuration tab in order to open it.
Start the Client
Click on either the ui.swing or the ui.swt node and start the development client product by clicking on the green arrow. When asked for a login, enter the same login information as before, admin/manager (or any other user/password pair from the config.ini). An empty application window should appear.
