If you followed the instructions in Chapter 2, Assembling and Running a CCA Application then bocca is already in your command path and you are ready to go. Find a safe place to begin your bocca project we recommend your home directory in a new directory called bocca:

$  cd $HOME
$  mkdir bocca
$  cd bocca
$  ls -a .


. ..
$  

The first thing to do is to create a project directory within which all of your components and ports will reside. Normally you would choose a relevant project name but for now we will just call it myProject. Create the project directory now:

$  bocca create project myProject --language=LANG
$  

Here "LANG" is the implementation language that your components will default to. Just choose the one of C, C++, and Fortran9X with which you are most comfortable. Now that the project is created, we see that bocca has created a lot of build scaffolding to support the componentized application we will write. The first thing you notice is that bocca has created a directory:

$  ls


myProject
$ 

feel free to poke around a bit:

$  ls myProject/


BOCCA     components    ports            python
Makefile  configure     project.make     utils
README    configure.in  project.make.in  xml_repository
$