Guides

We are in the process of updating the documentation for ASTRA and are adopting a guide-based approach with lots of simple tutorials. Prior documentation available includes the ASTRA Guide and Old ASTRA Guide. While these documents are a little out of date, they do contain a lot of useful information about ASTRA.

Whatever you want to build, these guides are designed to get you started as quickly as possible.

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Guides to Using IDE’s with ASTRA

These guides help you to understand how to work with ASTRA and Maven, using the command line or an Integrated Development Environment.

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Getting Started with ASTRA

These guides provide some basic techniques for writing ASTRA programs. Explanations are based on Maven command line tools, but you should be able to adapt these if you complete the relevent IDE guide above.

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Working with Custom ASTRA Modules

This series of guides focuses on how to integrate ASTRA with an environment using the built in Module concept. A central theme running through the guides is the idea of a light switch. Each guide will build on the previous guide extending / adapting the existing code to demonstrate the new concept being described.