Project Avatar requires JDK 8. If you have not already installed it, please do so from
here.
The following assumes that you have a pre-existing
GlassFish Server 4.0 installation.
The following also assumes that you have expanded the avatar-1.0-ea.zip file into the glassfish directory
of the GlassFish Server installation. For Ex.
unzip -d <workspace>glassfish4/glassfish avatar-1.0-ea.zip
AVATAR_HOME environment variable to point to the <workspace>/glassfish4/glassfish$AVATAR_HOME/bin to your PATH variable.
avatar new --example=helloThis will create the hello directory. Edit hello/avatar.properties
file and add the option debug=true
Start the Glassfish application server and deploy the newly created `hello` application.
asadmin start-domain
asadmin deploy helloNow, point your browser to http://localhost:8080/hello.
If you edit the hello/view/src/hello.html file while the server is running, Project Avatar will
re-compile it on the next request. This feature enables very rapid iteration during development of the application.
The debug property in the hello/avatar.properties file can be set
to false in production mode, which both disables this feature and causes all .js and
.css files to be minimized.
To stop the server, use 'asadmin stop-domain'.
If you want to look under the hood, we recommend the Chrome developer tools which allow you to step through JavaScript, inspect the DOM, css and more.
The examples application can be deployed as follows, and accessed at http://localhost:8080/examples:
asadmin deploy $AVATAR_HOME/Project-Avatar-examples/examples.earThe examples app is large, so to reduce startup time it is a good idea to undeploy it when no longer needed:
asadmin undeploy examples