e Xist-install-testapp

• Checkout eXist: svn checkout svn: //svn.code.sf.net/p/exist/code/trunk/eXist exist-code
• Build eXist: cd exist-code, ./build.sh
• Start eXist: bin/startup.sh

• Go to $GTHOME/apps/risten2
• Write ant. This builds the app. The result is an eXist-app, build/risten2-0.x.xar (where x is an integer)
• Goto to the app-repository (see documentation in http: //exist-db.org/exist/quickstart.xml#app-repository)
• Click the upload tab
• Click the Choose file button, browse your way to the risten-0.x.xar file, then click Upload. The page changes focus to the Installed tab, the app exists as Risten2.
• Click the Paper box icon above the label Risten2, then click the local url, and voilá, you are presented with the startup page of the app.

• Goto to the app-repository (see documentation in http: //exist-db.org/exist/quickstart.xml#app-repository)
• Click the public repo tab
• Click retrieve packages
• Click the Paper box icon above the label eXide. Click the install-icon. The page changes foces to the Installed tab. eXide exists as eXide.
• Click the Paper box icon above the label eXide, then click the local url and you are presented with the startup page of the eXide.

• Open eXide
• Choose the Application->New Application
• A dialog (Deployment Editor) appears, fill out the values

Application properties (First screen)

These are the values I filled out:

• Template: HTML-template (default)
• Target collection: /db/searchtmx
• Name: http: //divvun.no/apps/searchtmx
• Abbreviation: searchtmx
• Title: Search TMX
• Version: 0.1 (default)
• Status: Alpha (default)
• Pre-install XQuery: pre-install.xql (default)

Press Next

Description (Second screen)

• Author: Børre Gaup
• Description: Search for words in tmx-files
• Website: http: //divvun.no

Default Permission (Third screen)

Don't fill in anything

Press Done

Open the start page of this new application by entering http: //http: //localhost: 8080/exist/apps/searchtmx/index.html into the webbrowsers address field

Add the app to svn

• Make a directory searchtmx in svn
• Goto Application->Download in eXide, you'll end up with searchtmx-0.1.xar in Downloads
• Goto the searchtmx dir, unzip the downloaded .xar file in this directory
• svn add searchtmx, then svn ci

Adding changes in searchtmx to svn

• Make the changes you want in eXide to the searchtmx app
• Goto Application->Download in eXide, you'll end up with searchtmx-0.1.xar.1 in Downloads
• Goto the searchtmx dir, unzip the downloaded .xar file in this directory
• svn stat to see the changes
• svn ci to check in the changes

Syncing the svn version of searchtmx to eXist

• Goto the searchtmx directory
• Write ant to build the app. You'll now have a .xar file in build
• Goto to the app-repository (see documentation in http: //exist-db.org/exist/quickstart.xml#app-repository)
• Click the upload tab
• Click the Choose file button, browse your way to the searchtmx-0.1.xar file, then click Upload. The page changes focus to the Installed tab, the app exists as Searchtmx (0.1). (if an error is reported, repeat the previous and this step)
• Click the Paper box icon above the label Searchtmx (0.1), then click the local url and you are presented with the startup page of the app.