Ajax Toolkit Update

I went through the article. The Ajax Toolkit Framework (ATF) is nice. It supports dojo, rico, and zimbra. The code snippets are a nice feature. I built the tree view example which uses dojo in the example. I am going to try it ATF more.

The installation was a bit tedious. I installed using these steps, but ensure you have the eclipse and web project toolkit (WTP) plug-in installed. If you do not you can download it here.

  • Download and extract XULRunner into its own directory.
  • Open dos window
    • Change to the directory you put XULRunner in
    • Run xulrunner –register-global
    • Run xulrunner –register-user
  • Download and extract Tomcat 5.5 into its own directory
  • Download Sysdeo 3.2 beta 3 plug-in
  • Extract it to the your eclipse plug-in directory
  • Start eclipse
  • Then open window, preferences, tomcat
  • Select tomcat 5.5
  • Put the tomcat directory in the tomcat home field
  • Hit apply and okay
  • Download ATF
  • In eclipse Select Help, Software Updates, Find and Install…
  • Select Search for new features to install
  • Select Next
  • Select New Archived Site
  • Select the directory that you downloaded ATF into
  • Select Finish
  • Ensure all ATF features are selected
  • Follow the remaining prompts to install ATF
  • Stop eclipse
  • Then follow the final steps here
  • Start eclipse using the –clean option

Congrats you are now good to go using ATF.

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