Hi Francois, ng-testapp is not a module/part of the ng-objects project itself so needs to be explicitly imported.
Video for reference, if it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vypLdi_nfE - hugi > On 23 Sep 2025, at 07:15, Francois BIENTZ via Webobjects-dev > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > > I did not tell you … > I did import the ng projects in Eclipse > The ng-testapp is imported in a ng-object-reactor > I was not able to run it in eclipse > François > >> Le 22 sept. 2025 à 23:33, Hugi Thordarson via Webobjects-dev >> <[email protected]> a écrit : >> >> Excellent to hear :). >> >> You can import the project into Eclipse ("import maven project") and work on >> it there like pretty much like any WO application. Just right click the >> Application class and select Debug As -> Java Application and start adding >> components, actions, routes etc. The public facing APIs are very similar to >> WO's since one of it's primary design goals is for my WO projects to be >> easily migratable to it when that time arrives (although I really, really >> want to change some core APIs, but still considering the pros and cons. Long >> story). >> >> It's possible to "fool" WOLips into thinking it's a WO project and get some >> of the component editor's features (autocomplete, switching between >> component/class etc.). But doing so involves a few steps, so I think I'll >> make a separate post to detail how that's done. >> >> Now, I'd like to warn you that ng is very, very much "work in progress". >> There's no documentation, the APIs will change, the design will change, >> everything may change. I really need to do a little writeup on the status of >> each part of the framework to clarify the development state of each of the >> framework's components. I'm planning on stabilizing a couple of things and >> doing a "prerelease" to maven central in the next couple of months and when >> that happens there will at least be some documentation as well. >> >> But yeah. I wouldn't recommend doing any production work on ng as is, unless >> you're really brave. I do run a few sites on it myself — but I'm cheating >> since I've got all of them in the same workspace as ng, allowing me to >> refactor all the projects using ng when I make a change. >> >> But I *do* love knowing someone is looking at it and playing with it, I'm >> very open to suggestions on design and, well, everything. >> >> To everyone else: I hope you're ok with ng being discussed here? I know it's >> not exactly WO, but it's quite related, I promise :) >> >> Cheers, >> - hugi >> >> >> >>> On 22 Sep 2025, at 20:52, Francois BIENTZ via Webobjects-dev >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thank you so much Hugi >>> >>> ng-testapp works fine using maven on the command line. >>> What kind of IDE do you use to run it ? >>> >>> François >>> >>>>> Le 22 sept. 2025 à 18:30, Hugi Thordarson via Webobjects-dev >>>>> <[email protected]> a écrit : >>>> >>>> Francois, this is not about you not being lucky — it's about me >>>> absolutely sucking at making sure the stuff I've got under development is >>>> usable and accessible for newcomers. Sorry about that. It hasn't been high >>>> on the priority list since not many people have been looking at this, but >>>> you've given me a fresh dose of motivation to improve the situation :). >>>> >>>> I've updated the build of ng-testapp and updated the instructions. Now >>>> works fine on my side, hope it will for you too. >>>> >>>> However; the provided testapp is actually terrible. It hasn't been updated >>>> in years and is pretty much just some scaffolding I used for testing while >>>> figuring out the basics of templating, action invocations etc. I think >>>> some of it's templates are even hand-coded element templates, since before >>>> I started work on the template parser (oof. How little I actually knew >>>> about what the heck I was beginning back then). >>>> >>>> I'll spend some time this week and make the test application a little more >>>> useful and attractive. Thanks for taking a look! >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> - hugi >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 22 Sep 2025, at 16:06, Francois BIENTZ via Webobjects-dev >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thank you Hugi about Whoa ! Community >>>>> >>>>> I’m not lucky testing new "things" :-( >>>>> I wanted to try ng-objects , followed the readme >>>>> >>>>> mvn install >>>>> cd ng-testapp >>>>> mvn package >>>>> ./target/ng-testapp-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.woa/ng-testapp >>>>> >>>>> => No such directory : testapp-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.woa >>>>> >>>>> François >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>>>> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>>>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>>>> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/hugi%40karlmenn.is >>>>> >>>>> This email sent to [email protected] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Do not post admin requests to the list. 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