Getting Started

This chapter introduces you to the basic features of the Frank!Framework. If you are a Frank developer, please study this chapter before investigating more advanced topics. If you are a tester, you can study our product Ladybug without reading this chapter; see Ladybug. If you are a system administrator, you can study Administrator Manual without reading this chapter.

This chapter can be studied in two ways. First, it is a tutorial. There are instructions that you can follow to get hands-on experience with the Frank!Framework. You will use the Frank!Runner, to be found at https://github.com/ibissource/frank-runner. Second you can just read the text on your laptop or even your telephone.

If you want, you can download the solution configuration.

• Frank!Runner Installation
  • Installation and start-up
  • The main menu
  • General structure of the example Frank application
  • The sources of your Frank configs
  • Summary
• Hello World Source Code
  • Introduction
  • Frank configuration
  • Adapter
  • Receiver
  • Pipeline
  • Conclusion
• Testing Pipelines
  • Test a Pipeline
  • Ladybug
  • Larva
• Example: New Horizons
• New Horizons Requirements
• Database Initialization
  • Introduction
  • Enable Liquibase
  • Test your database
  • Solution
• Validating XML against Schema
  • Introduction
  • The ingest booking adapter
  • Testing (Windows)
  • Testing (Linux)
  • Final remarks (Windows and Linux)
  • Solution
• Sending to Database
  • Extending the ingest booking adapter
  • Named query parameters
  • Testing (Windows and Linux)
  • solution
• Transformation with XSLT
• Repetition
• Transactions
• Web content
• Exercise