iKnowBase Development Toolkit

The iKnowBase Development Toolkit enables you to build a customer specific edition of the iKnowBase applications containing

• Configuration changes and additions
• Java plugins and libraries

While the development toolkit does not replace the standard iKnowBase development model, it provides the developer with a supplement and alternative.

Benefits

Web content:

• Use java spring controllers as an alternative to using iKnowBase script targets.

Activiti projects:

• Use java extensions for enriching the Activiti process
  • Service Tasks
  • Task Listeners
  • Execution Listeners
• Use java controllers for accessing Process Engine information from web clients
  • Alternative to using iKnowBase script targets

Overall maintainability:

• Can improve code reuse
• Easier to commit to version control

Getting started

Contact the iKnowBase product development team for more information.

Troubleshooting

Classpath issues in Eclipse based IDEs

When importing the iknowbase-plugins project with subprojects in Eclipse, the classpath defaults generated by the eclipse plugin is not correctly ordered. The iKnowBase Quickstart library must be added before the war-file WEB-INF libraries.

Resolve the issue with

• During Gradle project import: Uncheck "Enable dependency management"
• For all IDE helper projects:
  • Project Properties > Gradle > Classpath sorting strategy: Select “As returned by build script”