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Getting Started

Setup a new BOP application and create a simple entry point.

• Quick Start

• Hello World Action

My-Status Example Application

Write a new application which tracks a user's status within a forum.

• Application Summary

• My Status Model

• Adding the List and Form Models

• Adding the Views

• Tasks and Facade

• Acceptance Test

Model

Models contain the ORM (object relational mapping) and application business logic.

• Type

• Biz.Model: business logic and persistence

  • Biz.FormModel: user input validation and application business logic

  • Biz.ListModel: tabular data-set with paging and sorting

  • Biz.PropertyModel: CRUD (create/read/update/delete) to a database table

• Biz.Action: transient business logic

• SQL

View

• UI.Facade: provides URI route to the Task and application text to the Views

• UI.View

  • UI.Widget

  • UI.WidgetValue

• UI.ViewShortcuts

Task (Controller)

• Agent.Dispatcher: Adapters to server APIs (apache)

• Agent.Cookie: User authentication state

• Agent.Task: The unit of work in an Agent

• Agent.Request: key-value store for context of a single (usually HTTP) request

• ShellUtil: command line View and Controller

Application Support

• Die and Exception Handling

• IO.Config

• IO.Trace

Testing

• Test.Language: HTTP and email acceptance testing

• Test.Unit: Declarative execution of object methods

Miscellaneous

• Coding Style