The Application Integration Design Console is a graphical user interface (GUI) that offers an easy way to access, organize, and edit all the application views in your enterprise. You can use the Application Integration Design Console to create new folders and to add new application views to them. By storing your application views in folders, you can organize them according to your own navigation scheme, regardless of the adapters to which the individual application views belong.
This section presents the following topics:
Note: | Before performing the following steps, ensure that WebLogic Server is running on your system. |
WARNING: | You should only have one instance of the Application Integration Design Console running on a single client machine. Running multiple consoles on a single machine may interfere with proper navigation between screens in your web browser. |
To log on to the Application Integration Design Console:
http://
your_server
:
your_port
/wlai
For example: http://wli1:7001/wlai
Note: | You can also invoke the Application Integration Design Console from WebLogic Workshop. Open a WebLogic Workshop application, ensure that WebLogic Server is running, and then choose ToolsWebLogic IntegrationApplication Integration Design Console. |
To choose an existing, deployed application, select an application from the Deployed Applications menu.
To create a repository for a new application, specify an application name and the root directory for the application.
The application views in your enterprise are organized in folders that may contain application views and subsidiary folders. Once you create a folder, you cannot move it to another folder. Before removing a folder, you must remove all application views and subfolders.
Once you create an application view in a folder, you can remove the application view, but you cannot move it to another folder.
The Add Folder page is displayed.
Note: | The name Root is a reserved word, and cannot be used for a folder name. If you use Root as a name, you cannot import or export the folder using the import-export utility. |
Remove application views when they become obsolete or when the application to which they belong is retired.
You can remove an application view only if you are logged on to WebLogic Server with a user account with the appropriate write privileges.
To remove an application view:
Note: | When you delete a previously published application view, associated wlai.channel file, and EJB file, the application view ID still appears in the WebLogic Integration Administration Console and is shown in an Undeployed state after you rebuild the application. The deleted application view ID is removed from WebLogic Integration Administration Console when you reboot the system. |
Remove folders that are no longer needed. To remove a folder:
You can perform administration tasks on application views using the Application View Administration page. To administer an application view: