Setup the development environment
We decided to use Netbeans 8 with Java 1.8 as our development IDE. And also tryout to find the suitable server for the application. Our main concern was given to Weblogic server and find some installation difficulties, domain creating inconvenience (on latest version) and Server running errors. Then we tryout the Glassfish 4 server and Tomcat 7 server. And now we'r using the Tomcat 7.0 sever as out application server. Maven build tool was chosen as the build tool and for the framework of our project we decided to use Spring MVC framework.
We use Gravitydev for our project managing aspects and GitHub for source code management.
Having awareness about the technologies
- HTML5
- Javscript
- Websockets
- XML schema
- XSL - Extensible stylesheet language
- XSLT - XSL Tranformations
Buildup the prototype user interface
The prototype user interface was developed in HTML5. It was made in a single HTML file and added the Report editing surface with a grid which has exact number of columns and rows. Then after that some editing features like Bold, Italic, Underline etc. were added in to the interface.
Starup the project in Netbeans
Created the RLDTool (Report layout Designer Tool Project) project from Netbeans IDE
