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Available Documentation
Constellation documentation includes:
❏ The Overview, Capabilities and Benefits, ConstellationOverview.pdf. This document provides an overview of Constellation’s main features and discusses the
benefits of using Constellation.
❏ The Getting Started Guide, GettingStarted.pdf. This document includes installation instructions, system requirements, supported architectures, and compatibility with other products.
❏ The Tutorial, ConstellationTutorial.pdf. This tutorial provides basic exercises to
give you hands-on experience working in the Constellation environment to build,
test, and run new components and applications.
❏ The User’s Manual, Manual.pdf. The manual contains step-by-step instructions
on how to use the tools, build components, run and debug applications.
❏ The Distributed Applications Guide, DistributedApplications.pdf. This docu-
ment describes two approaches (NDDS® and CORBA®) for developing Constellation applications that need to communicate with other (Constellation and nonConstellation) applications.
❏ The UML Guide, ConstellationUMLGuide.pdf. This document provides an
introduction to the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and describes how to
create UML diagrams with Constellation and use them in your development process.
You can access these documents through the main online documentation file, Constellation.html, which also includes extensive online HTML documentation. This file is copied onto your system when you install Constellation. It is located in <your installation
path>/cs.8.0x, where x is a version-specific letter. You can open the file directly with any
standard web browser such as Netscape® or Microsoft® Internet Explorer, or by starting
Constellation and using the Help menu.