Developing a Ripla application

To create a Ripla application, you have to do the following steps:

1. Create an application bundle containing the application's main class which has to extend org.ripla.web.RiplaApplication.
2. Create at least one use case bundle containing a use case service implementation (i.e. a class implementing the org.ripla.web.services.IUseCase interface) as well as the use case's resources, i.e. views and controllers.
3. Create a bundle fragment containing the layout resources, i.e. style sheets and images for the layout you want to use for your application.
4. Create a skin bundle for your application, i.e. a component containing the service provider for org.ripla.web.services.ISkin and referencing the skin bundle fragment.
5. Collect other OSGi bundles you need for the application's business or persistence layer (e.g. service providers for the org.osgi.service.jdbc.DataSourceFactory service).

Note: throughout this document, the term bundle stands for OSGi bundle.