Creating an application type

Before you can create an application type you must have the following available:

Template files,
applicationType.properties file,
any additional jar files,
an optional JavaHelp HelpSet.

The following steps describe one way of creating a distributable application type:

  1. Create a temporary directory.
  2. Create a templates directory in the temporary directory and copy all the templates for the application type into it.
  3. Create a jars directory in the temporary directory and copy the additional jar files into it.
  4. Copy applicationType.properties into the root of the temporary directory.
  5. Copy the JavaHelp HelpSet (if any) into the temporary directory.
  6. The temporary directory should look something like this:
  7. Open a console window and change directory to the temporary directory.
  8. Create a jar file file containing the application type by executing the command:
    jar -cvf ../someType.jar *
    Where someType.jar is the name of the jar file that will contain the distributable application type. (Note: this requires the jar executable to be in the path).
  9. someType.jar now contains the distributable application type.
  10. You may now want to install it.

Related concepts

Application type
Template

Related tasks

Installing an application type