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Steps in construction of the example module
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The example module chosen to illustrate the process of SALOME module development is extremely simple. The module contains a single component and this component provides a single service called **makeBanner** that accepts a character string as the sole argument and that returns a character string obtained by the concatenation of a 'SMITER' and the input string. The component also provides a simple GUI.

The steps in the development are as follows:

* create a module tree structure

* create a SALOME component that can be loaded by a Python SALOME container

* configure the module so that the component is known to SALOME

* add a graphic GUI