Apache Click™ is a modern JEE web application framework, providing a natural rich client style programming model. Apache Click is designed to be very easy to learn and use, with developers getting up and running within a day.
Comprehensive HTML documentation is available online at:
The documentation is also available from the directory:
documentation/
Detailed release notes are available here:
documentation/docs/roadmap-changes.html
Distributed Click JAR files include:
dist/click-xx.jar
- Click runtime JAR including dependencies
dist/click-nodeps-xx.jar
- Click runtime JAR with no dependencies
dist/click-extras-xx.jar
- Click Extras JAR
dist/click-mock-xx.jar
- Click Mock Utilities JAR
Example pre-built web application include:
dist/click-examples.war
Click is built using the J2SE 1.5.0 and Apache Ant
The Ant build.xml
and build.properties
files are located in the build/
directory.
The main Ant targets include:
build-all build framework, extras, examples build-distribution build distribution ZIP file build-examples build click-examples WAR file build-extras build click-extras JAR file build-framework build click framework JAR file build-maven-bundles build Maven repository upload bundles build-mock build mock JAR file build-sources build source ZIP files for use with IDEs checkstyle run checkstyle report on Java source deploy-examples copy example WAR files to app server get-deps download JAR dependencies get-deps-proxy download JAR dependencies via proxy help display the Help message javadoc create Javadoc HTML files project-quick-start build application template test-all run all unit tests
Before building the framework, all third-party library dependencies must be downloaded using the command:
ant get-deps
or in the case of running behind a proxy, by using the command:
ant get-deps-proxy
To run all tests execute the command:
ant test-all
To build a new distribution run:
ant build-distribution
To build the core library, click-x.x.x.jar, run:
ant build-framework
To build the extras library, click-extras.x.x.x.jar, run:
ant build-extras
To build the documentation (PDF and HTML) please see:
documentation/xdocs/README.txt
Further information on building Click is available here:
documentation/docs/developer-guide/building.html