Create your first application

Ninja features so called “Maven archetypes”. These archetypes are blueprints that allow you to generate a new project with a single command.

In Ninja's case we recommend to create a new Ninja project based on our “ninja-servlet-archetype-simple”.

You can use that archetype as starting point to create your own application.

The command to do so is:

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeGroupId=org.ninjaframework -DarchetypeArtifactId=ninja-servlet-archetype-simple

Please enter sensible values for “groupId” and “artifactId” and let Maven generate your first Ninja project.

After finishing the generation change into your project directory and execute:

cd MY_INSTALLED_PROJECT
mvn clean install     // to generate the compiled classes the first time
mvn ninja:run         // to start Ninja's SuperDevMode

This starts Ninja's SuperDevMode. Simply open http://localhost:8080 in your browser. You'll see Ninja demo project ready to work on. That's it basically. You just created your first Ninja application!

We think that fast and responsive development cycles are a key success factor for software projects. SuperDevMode is our answer to that challenge. Say goodbye to long and time consuming deployment cycles while developing.

NOTE: There is a second archetype available, more advanced, that provides you quite a simple blog application. Please refer to the Working with relational DBs for more information.