Examples

flex-ui-examples

flex-ui provides a web application running in an embedded Jetty server, that allows you to view and test components that the flex-ui provides.

Building and running

First, build the entire flex-ui project from source, executing

mvn install

in the root directory. Then you have several options to view the application

• Run the application via maven and the Jetty plugin. To that end, execute mvn jetty:run in the flex-ui-examples module after building
• Import the flex-ui project into your IDE of choice, and find the Start class (in flex-ui-examples/src/test/java) and execute it. It will start an embedded Jetty server

Finally, you can find the application running at http://localhost:8080

Optionally, you can also deploy the flex-ui-examples.war that is generated via mvn install, which you can afterwards find in flex-ui-examples/target/ into your local Tomcat, Jetty or another Java servlet container.

Troubleshooting

When running from Start, WebAppContext fails at startup of context with a java.io.FileNotFoundException

The Start class has a constant WAR_PATH that points to the relative path of the root directory of the example web application. In some cases, depending on your IDE setup, your classpath may be set outside the project root, which can cause errors in resolving the path. Your best bet is to set the absolute path to flex-ui-examples/src/main/webapp on your file system, and set it manually via WebAppContext#setWar(String) (find the call in the Start class)

When running mvn jetty:run maven fails with an error No plugin found for prefix 'jetty'

Most likely you are not running the command from within flex-ui-examples

When running mvn jetty:run maven fails with an error Failed to execute goal on project flex-ui-examples: Could not resolve dependencies for project

Have you built the project from the root directory with mvn install?