Apache Click™ is a modern JEE web application framework, providing a natural rich client style programming model. Apache Click is designed to be very easy to learn and use, with developers getting up and running within a day.
Comprehensive HTML documentation is available online at:
The documentation is also available from the directory:
documentation/
Detailed release notes are available here:
documentation/docs/roadmap-changes.html
Distributed Click JAR files include:
dist/click-xx.jar - Click runtime JAR including dependencies
dist/click-nodeps-xx.jar - Click runtime JAR with no dependencies
dist/click-extras-xx.jar - Click Extras JAR
dist/click-mock-xx.jar - Click Mock Utilities JAR
Example pre-built web application include:
dist/click-examples.war
Click is built using the J2SE 1.5.0 and Apache Ant
The Ant build.xml and build.properties files are located in
the build/ directory.
The main Ant targets include:
build-all build framework, extras, examples
build-distribution build distribution ZIP file
build-examples build click-examples WAR file
build-extras build click-extras JAR file
build-framework build click framework JAR file
build-maven-bundles build Maven repository upload bundles
build-mock build mock JAR file
build-sources build source ZIP files for use with IDEs
checkstyle run checkstyle report on Java source
deploy-examples copy example WAR files to app server
get-deps download JAR dependencies
get-deps-proxy download JAR dependencies via proxy
help display the Help message
javadoc create Javadoc HTML files
project-quick-start build application template
test-all run all unit tests
Before building the framework, all third-party library dependencies must be downloaded using the command:
ant get-deps
or in the case of running behind a proxy, by using the command:
ant get-deps-proxy
To run all tests execute the command:
ant test-all
To build a new distribution run:
ant build-distribution
To build the core library, click-x.x.x.jar, run:
ant build-framework
To build the extras library, click-extras.x.x.x.jar, run:
ant build-extras
To build the documentation (PDF and HTML) please see:
documentation/xdocs/README.txt
Further information on building Click is available here:
documentation/docs/developer-guide/building.html
Main site
User guide, documents, book
- https://click.apache.org/docs/user-guide.html
- https://click.apache.org/docs/user-guide/htmlsingle/click-book.html
- https://click.apache.org/docs/user-guide/html/index.html
- https://click.apache.org/docs/user-guide/pdf/click-book.pdf
Why Click?
https://click.apache.org/docs/why-click.html
FAQ
https://click.apache.org/docs/faq.html
GitHub
Run examples
💡 If you have gradle installed, you can use command gradle otherwise use gradlew in project's root folder.
💡 You will probably need to stop gradle's daemon, to successfully start next example:
gradle --stop
- $
gradle :examples:clean :examples:tomcatRunWar --stacktrace --info --warning-mode all --continue - $
gradle :extra-clickclick-examples:clean :extra-clickclick-examples:tomcatRunWar --stacktrace --info --warning-mode all --continue - $
gradle :click-charts-examples:clean :click-charts-examples:tomcatRunWar --stacktrace --info --warning-mode all --continue - $
gradle :click-jquery-examples:clean :click-jquery-examples:tomcatRunWar --stacktrace --info --warning-mode all --continue - $
gradle :extra-ajax4click-examples:clean :extra-ajax4click-examples:tomcatRunWar --stacktrace --info --warning-mode all --continue - $
gradle :extra-click-calendar-examples:clean :extra-click-calendar-examples:tomcatRunWar --stacktrace --info --warning-mode all --continue - $
gradle :extra-click-charts-enhanced-examples:clean :extra-click-charts-enhanced-examples:tomcatRunWar --stacktrace --info --warning-mode all --continue
(see also https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/command_line_interface.html)