Example: New Horizons

In the remaining sections of Getting Started , we consider a more interesting example than outputting a fixed string.

We consider an imaginary firm New Horizons. New Horizons allows travelers to book travels online, which constitute visits to hotels, apartments, campings or any other place where travelers can sleep. New Horizons makes traveling easier, because the traveler with a complex travel does not have to negotiate with the individual hosts. New Horizons takes the responsibility of paying them.

Of course New Horizons has many user stories. In the Getting Started , we focus on a very specific task. A booking accepted by New Horizons, which can constitute multiple visits, should be stored in a relational database for further processing.

To get started, please do the following:

1. You will put your work for NewHorizons in a dedicated Frank configuration. You will store it in the directory franks/Frank2Manual/configurations/NewHorizons (see subsection Set up your instance about the directory tree). In that NewHorizons directory, open a new file Configuration.xml.

2. Give that file the following contents:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
   <Configuration name="NewHorizons">
   </Configuration>
   

3. To check this step, please start the Frank!Framework.

4. Go to the Adapter Status page. You should see a tab “NewHorizons”.

The details of what we want to build are in the next section.