This first step in UI customization is to set up a development environment that contains a working version of the portal and all available source code and documentation. Use the UI Customization Installer (UICI) to automatically set up the required environment.
Note: This instruction set is intended for use on development machines. It is a best practice for custom development to install the portal environment on a development machine and then migrate the resulting custom WAR/DLLs to a production machine. This requires the use of an IDE such as Eclipse or Visual Studio; development in TextPad or another text editor is NOT SUPPORTED.
The UICI is available for both Java and .Net environments.
For instructions on setting up the AquaLogic User Interaction Development Kit (IDK), formerly the EDK, on your remote server, see Setting Up the IDK.