Introduction

This guide shows the core functionality of ACE, organizing bundles and other artifacts into logical groups and associating those with specific targets, all done using a convenient web interface.

Using ACE and its Web UI

Note that the Web UI is still very much a work in progress. No interaction design whatsoever has been applied and the actual interface is very much in flux. It might be these instructions are outdated because of that.

The following steps can be followed to get started:

1. Checkout and build ACE.
2. Start the server with integrated Web UI. Go to core/deploy/target/dev-server-webui. Start it using the run.sh or run.bat file.
3. Launch a browser, point it to http://localhost:8080/webui/
4. Click on 'Retrieve' to get the initial version of the repository.
5. Copy some sample bundles into the 'store' folder of the server.
6. Click on the '+' in the Bundles column and select one or more bundles to import from the OBR (you have to select them one at a time for now) and hit 'Save'.
7. Create a group by hitting the '+' in the groups column.
8. Create a license by hitting the '+' in the licenses column.
9. Drag a bundle on a group to create an association.
10. Drag a group to a license to create an association.
11. Start a target. Go to core/deploy/target/dev-gateway. Start it using the run.sh or run.bat file.
12. The target should show up in the Web UI. To associate it to a license, drag that license onto the target.
13. Click on 'Store' to actually store changes on the server, which should trigger the actual deployment of the bundle to the target.

How does it work?

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