1.1 Overview of this manual

This manual gives you experience in performing tasks from creating the service platform environment to executing sample programs through actual operations on a machine.

Chapter 2 describes the three sample programs that are provided by this product, and the components of each sample program.

Chapter 3 describes the procedure for creating the service platform environment and the preparation for executing the three sample programs.

Chapter 4 describes the procedure for executing the sample programs that were prepared in Chapter 3.

Chapter 5 describes the procedure for creating programs (sample programs used in Chapters 3 and 4) in the development environment.

Chapter 6 describes the procedure for deleting the service platform and sample program environments that were prepared in Chapter 3.

The chapters of this manual are intended to be read sequentially. Read through the chapters in the organized order, while operating the machine.

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Conventions: Fonts and symbols
This manual uses the following conventions for screens and operations:
Text formattingConvention
ItalicItalic characters indicate a placeholder for text to be provided by the user or system.
MonospaceMonospace characters indicate text that the user enters without change, or text (such as messages) output by the system.
Conventions: Types of text in syntax
The following defines the types of text in syntax:
TypeDefinition
AlphabeticA-Z and a-z
AlphanumericA-Z, a-z, and 0-9
StringAny string of characters
Conventions: Installation directory
The default installation directory for the service platform is C:\Program Files\Hitachi\Cosminexus. If you do not want to use the default installation directory, replace service-platform-installation-directory with the name of the desired directory in this manual.
Conventions: Language pack
This manual uses the Eclipse menu item names for which Babel Japanese Language Pack (version 2012-07-21) provided by Eclipse Babel Project was applied. The menu item names might differ depending on the version of the language pack.