The Smartproducts platform consists of different modules (in the form of OSGi bundles) that provide the basic functionality. However, to allow customers to build a system that fits their requirements, the concept of an application has been used.

Once the platform has been built, the folder SmartProducts/dist will be created. This distribution is then used by the applications that add custom code (e.g. workflows, special UIs, ...). So basically the order for building and running an application is as follows:

1. build the platform using ant
2. build the application using ant (default target is ok)
3. go to the dist folder within the application folder and run the platform