B U T T E R F L Y

What is this?

Butterfly is a modular web application framework.

How do I use it?

Type

$ ./butterfly

and then pointing your browser to

http://127.0.0.1:8080/

where you should see a Butterfly welcome page.

Where is the stuff that Butterfly is showing me?

Butterfly's main concept is webapp modules. By default, modules are located in

./modules/

and wired together with information contained in the file named

./modules.properties

those two together should give you hints on how to start looking around for what Butterfly does.

Is there any other documentation?

Point your browser to

 http://code.google.com/p/simile-butterfly/

to go to the official Butterfly home page.

Licensing and legal issues

Butterfly is open source software and is licensed under the Apache License v2.0 located in the LICENSE.txt file located in the same directory as this very file you are reading.

Note that Butterfly depends on software that maybe be licensed under different licenses (see the NOTICE.txt file for more info) although Butterfly complies with their licencing terms. You might wish to check such libraries' terms yourself and how they might effect your ability to redistribute Butterfly would you wish to do so.

Credits

It was originally conceived and written by:

- Stefano Mazzocchi <stefano@apache.org>

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Thanks for your interest.

                                                    The Butterfly Project
                                            http://code.google.com/p/simile-butterfly/