Documentation and Screenshots

Here is an overview about what JTemplate is able to do. We use the example of generating an CLI appication.

Start Screen

After startup, the following window appears:

start screen

A new CLI program

To create a new program, you click at the appropriate button in the toolbar. To create for example a CLI application, you just click the CLI button.

Now you can enter the required and optional parameters for your program.

screen for CLI program

In detail, the options are:

Name of the package

If your program is part of a package, you will enter the package name here (for example: "de.linuksoft.fb")

Name of the main class

This argument sets the following properties of your program:

the name of the main class ("public class FooBar")
the name of the Java sourcefile ("FooBar.java")
the name of the class, which will be created in "public static void main"
if the i18n option will be set, this sets the name of the property files, which is the class name in lower case (see below)

Location

The directory, which is used to store the files

i18n support

Determines, if code for i18n and property files will be created

Create javadoc comments

Determines, if javadoc comments will be inserted into the file

Example Session

The following example shows the creation of a program with the following settings:

Startbildschirm

After entering this settings, you may click the "Go" button, to generate the files in the given location:

de/linuksoft/fb/FooBar.java
de/linuksoft/fb/foobar.properties
de/linuksoft/fb/foobar_de.properties
de/linuksoft/fb/foobar_en.properties

The contents of the files

FooBar.java

 1:package de.linuksoft.fb;
 2:
 3:import java.util.ResourceBundle;
 4:import java.util.MissingResourceException;
 5:import java.util.Locale;
 6:
 7:
 8:/**
 9: * This is the main class of the program
10: */
11:public class FooBar {
12:
13:    /**
14:     * This variable stores the ResourceBundle
15:     */
16:    private ResourceBundle theRes = null;
17:
18:    /**
19:     * The default constructor of this class FooBar
20:     */
21:    public FooBar() {
22:        try {
23:            theRes = ResourceBundle.getBundle("de.linuksoft.fb.foobar", Locale.getDefault());
24:        } catch (MissingResourceException exc) {
25:            System.err.println("Resource file not found.");
26:            exc.printStackTrace();
27:            System.exit(1);
28:        }
29:        System.out.println(theRes.getString("Hello.World"));
30:    }
31:
32:    /**
33:     * The main method of this class
34:     */
35:    public static void main(String[] args) {
36:        FooBar foo = new FooBar();
37:    }
38:}

foobar.properties

This file is equivalent either to foobar_en.properties or to foobar_de.properties. This depends on the current Locale with which JTemplate was started.

foobar_en.properties

property file for FooBar
Hello.World=Hello World

foobar_de.properties

property file for FooBar
Hello.World=Hallo Welt