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[[Category:Xebra]]

=Create a new webapp=

# Setup an initial Eiffel project for your webapp. For that matter you can use this [https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/eiffelstudio/trunk/Src/framework/web/xebra/tools/scripts/create_website.sh script] which creates all necessary files. Make sure to assign a free port to your webapp (see also [[Xebra Webapp Config File]]). The webapp has to be created in the same folder that is specified in the servers config file at webapps_root. See [[Xebra Server Config File]] for more information.
# Run the server and browse to http://localhost:55000/yourwebapp. The server will translate and compile your webapp. Once compiled, you should see a page displaying "Yourwebapp works!".
# Create xeb files for your webapp. See [[Xebra Documentation|Xebra Tag Libraries]] for more info about xeb tags. Note that you have to let the server retranslate your webapp everytime you change xeb-files or add new xeb-files. This can be done by just pressing F5 in the browser. The server automatically detects that the webapp has to be retranslated if it is set to Development Mode (see [[Xebra Server Administration]] for more info).
# Create the eiffel classes.



=Manually translate a webapp=
To manually translate, generate and compile your webapp use the following commands
<code>
cd $XEBRA_DEV/httpd/htdocs/yourwebapp/

#Translate
$XEBRA_DEV/eiffel_projects/xebra_translator/EIFGENs/W_code/xebra_translator -n yourwebapp -i . -o . -t $XEBRA_DEV/eiffel_projects/xebra_translator/ -d 10

#Compile servlet_gen
ec -config .generated/servlet_gen/servlet_gen.ecf -target servlet_gen -c_compile -stop

#Execute servlet_gen
.generated/servlet_gen/EIFGENs/servlet_gen/W_code/servlet_gen .

#Compile webapp
ec -config yourwebapp.ecf -target yourwebapp -c_compile -stop

</code>

Optionally, you can add the "-clean" option for ec and the "-force" option for translator to force a complete recompilation.