Getting started with eclipse: simple webdav browsing

In the next 5-10 minutes we'll build a milton web application in eclipse, using maven, which has simple folder and file browsing. The next modules will show how to implement file operations like moving, deleting, copying etc

Scenario: an Astronomy Management System

In this tutorial we'll be simulating a database of galaxies, solar systems and planets. This is intended to be a simple example of a business application with relational data that can be represented in a hierarchial view. Note that we won't actually be using a database, for simplicity we'll just hold data in memory.

The result

In a few minutes time you'll be looking at something like this running on your own machine:

The full source code for these tutorials is in github

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