B U T T E R F L Y
What is this?
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Butterfly is a modular web application framework.
How do I use it?
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Type
$ ./butterfly
and then pointing your browser to
http://127.0.0.1:8080/
where you should see a Butterfly welcome page.
Where is the stuff that Butterfly is showing me?
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Butterfly's main concept is webapp modules. By default, modules are
located in
./modules/
and wired together with information contained in the file named
./modules.properties
those two together should give you hints on how to start looking around for
what Butterfly does.
Is there any other documentation?
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Point your browser to
http://code.google.com/p/simile-butterfly/
to go to the official Butterfly home page.
What's with the Maven poms?
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They're there so the Butterfly engine can be published in
Maven Central. They're not useful for you unless you're
involved in the Maven deployment process and have no bearing
on the build process. You can safely ignore them.
Licensing and legal issues
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Butterfly is open source software and is licensed under the Apache
License v2.0 located in the LICENSE.txt file located in the same directory
as this very file you are reading.
Note that Butterfly depends on software that maybe be licensed under
different licenses (see the NOTICE.txt file for more info)
although Butterfly complies with their licencing terms.
You might wish to check such libraries' terms yourself and how
they might effect your ability to redistribute Butterfly
would you wish to do so.
Credits
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It was originally conceived and written by:
- Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano@apache.org>
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Thanks for your interest.
The Butterfly Project
http://code.google.com/p/simile-butterfly/