Frank!Manual

This is the user manual of the Frank!Framework, an open-source platform to quickly build enterprise applications. To have an enterprise application, or as we say a Frank, you have to deploy the Frank!Framework in combination with XML configuration files. This manual explains to Frank developers how to develop Frank configs (chapters Getting Started and Advanced Development). Operators or site owners can read chapter Operator manual about monitoring and managing a Frank. System administrators can learn how to deploy a Frank on their infrastructure (chapter Administrator Manual). There is also material about Testing Frank Configurations.

The Java source code of the Frank!Framework can be found at https://github.com/frankframework/frankframework. You can also find release notes here, see https://github.com/frankframework/frankframework/releases. See also http://frankframework.org for more information.

Below you see the table of contents of the Frank!Manual:

• Getting Started
  • Frank!Runner Installation
  • Hello World Source Code
  • Testing Pipelines
  • Example: New Horizons
  • New Horizons Requirements
  • Database Initialization
  • Validating XML against Schema
  • Sending to Database
  • Transformation with XSLT
  • Repetition
  • Transactions
  • Web content
  • Exercise
• Operator manual
  • New Horizons
  • Preparations
  • Adapter Status
  • Ladybug
  • Environment Variables
  • Logs
  • The Database
  • Management
  • Uploading configurations
  • Scheduling
  • Disk Usage
  • Processed Messages
• Testing Frank Configurations
  • Ladybug
  • Larva
• Administrator Manual
  • Frank!Runner
  • Apache Tomcat
  • The DTAP stage and setting properties
  • Security
  • Credentials
• Advanced Development
  • Properties
  • The Database
  • Maven
• Questions and Answers
  • Adapter status page ManageDatabase error
  • On startup, syntax error in SQL
  • Passing XML parameter to XSLT
  • Using an Oracle database
  • Inserting from XPath expression, default value null
  • Custom logging with log4j
  • XSLT Testing with Larva
  • No adapter restart needed after editing Larva tests
  • Parameters in Larva tests
  • Transaction attribute on receiver or pipeline?
  • Load multiple configs at once
  • Property configurations.<configname>.parentConfig
  • Authorization to turn on Ladybug
  • Flow diagram images
  • XmlSwitchPipe exception “Premature end of file”
  • Test ApiListener with authentication (without Larva)
  • Liquibase logging
  • Filling adapter response with session key
  • Reading auto-generated keys when inserting into database
  • Iterating over CSV file
  • Liquibase script does not seem to work with H2 in-memory database
  • Watching the startup of the F!F
• Disclaimer
  • Images
• Index