Section 3.5.2, “Working With the Box” describes how you start the virtualized environment. This section will show you how to start the underlying components directly on your developer machine and how to import the demo content. To achieve this you need to configure the databases as described in Section 3.3.5, “Configuring Local Setup”. This section will provide you with the command line snippets to start the components, but you can also run Maven commands from your IDE, if you don't like switching between applications.
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For the very initial development purposes or for debugging, the server components can be started using the way described in this section, but the recommended way to start server components is to use the virtualized setup provided with the management box. It provides you with a far more reproducible state and prevents you from polluting your developer machine with project specific infrastructure and state. |
Furthermore, some basic knowledge about the CoreMedia CMS architecture and components, especially the Content Server, the CAE and CoreMedia Studio would be helpful to cope with this section.
If you want to start developing right away, you should continue with Section 3.5.5, “Developing with Components and Boxes”.
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