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How to Write a Rhino Application

The following steps are meant to be broad guidelines; your particular application may require more or fewer steps than those listed below.

  1. Analyze the UI requirements of your application in terms of the Rhino UI classes. Understand the Rhino users model.

  2. Analyze server-side requirements. Identify the Category(s) that need to be administered. Identify Item attributes and Category attributes (if any).

  3. Generate example ISM. Use mkrhinoism to generate a self-building example ISM that will help you get started using Rhino to create your application.

  4. Provide an API that allows Rhino to determine the Item(s) belonging to the Category(s) and provide notification of changes to the state of the Item(s).

  5. Implement the server-side functionality:

  6. Implement the client-side user interfaces: