The SSK (SiteMesh Starter Kit) is a complete developer environment with SiteMesh and working demonstrations of the first 2 example tutorials with no dependencies on the OS.
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Using the SiteMesh Starter Kit on Windows
The SiteMesh Starter Kit was put together to be as unobtrusive as possible. As such there is no installation.
In this example, we create an apps folder on the C: drive and unzip using 7-Zip.
For the rest of this tutorial we will assume you are using the folder C:\apps\ssk.
Starting, C:\apps\ssk\sts-2.8.0.RELEASE\STS.exe will launch your development environment as shown below,
Import cafe WAR File
Import cafe which contains the first two tutorials.
Click File, Import... which will result in an import dialog box,
Expand the Web folder by clicking on the selection arrow and select WAR file.
Click Next.
Browse to the cafe.war file and select it,
Click Finish.
After import you can expand the cafe folder to see the sample sitemesh application in your workspace,
Launch the Default Example
By default, SSK includes the very first two tutorials,
Following through the tutorials the last step is to start the application server and browse to menu.jsp.
To do this with the SSK, right click on the file menu.jsp and choose Run on Server,
You will then be prompted to select a Server. The defaults are fine. Click the Finish button,
Finally, there will be a Spring Insight and depending on your Windows setup a Windows Firewall dialog as shown,
Select No to the Spring Insight and if prompted Allow Access to the Windows Firewall dialog.
If everything succeeds you will see the following screen,
More Tutorials
As more tutorials are built they will be posted in subsequent articles. This depends on your feedback. If you would like to see more let us know.