Getting started

• Download the release and try out the sample applications: simple and petclinic.
• The articles page contains a link to a good beginner tutorial.
• Take a look at the source of the samples.
• Take a look at the user guide.

Snapshots better then releases?

Because spring-richclient is still alpha, many users prefer to work with a development snapshot instead of the release.

Take a look at development/developmentSetup.html. It also explains how to get the latest examples running.

Creating your first project based on an archetype

In order to simplify the process of getting your first Spring Rich Client project started, a maven archetype has been created to do just that.

• See development/developmentSetup.html to install Maven 2, checkout the project and run

  mvn install

• Next, run the following command (with appropriate substitutions for your.group.id and your-artifact-id) in an empty directory:

  mvn archetype:create \
  -DarchetypeGroupId=org.springframework.richclient \
  -DarchetypeArtifactId=spring-richclient-archetype \
  -DarchetypeVersion=0.2.0-SNAPSHOT \
  -DgroupId=your.group.id -DartifactId=your-artifact-id

  Once this command completes, you will have a new project that is ready to go.

• You can use the Eclipse or Idea plugins in Maven to get the project into your favorite IDE.

  cd your-artifact-id
  mvn install eclipse:eclipse idea:idea

  The application can be started either through the IDE or with:

  cd your-artifact-id
  mvn package
  java -jar target/your-artifact-id-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar