Introduction

This guide provides guidance, best practices, and tips to developers for setting up, using, and increasing productivity when using WebLogic Portal. It is organized in roughly the way you would develop a portal application.

The information in this guide shows one way of accomplishing creating a portal. Because of WebLogic Portal’s versatility, you can accomplish the same thing in other ways. This guide provides a minimal amount of step-by-step instructions—just enough to get you started and not waste your time with elementary use of the product. To fill in the details, each section provides references to the relevant documentation.

Preparing and Creating Your Workspace – Organizing and getting your project set up.
Creating New Portal Projects – Creating projects for your portal EAR, WAR, and other objects.
Using Source Control – Using Eclipse Team plug-ins for interacting with source control to share projects with your development and quality assurance teams.

Starting from an Existing Project – Starting from already existing projects.
Creating a Domain and Server – Creating a domain and set it up to run from Workshop for WebLogic.
Sharing Configuration Objects – Sharing artifacts, such as content management nodes, desktops, entitlements, and roles.
Running and Debugging an Application – Controlling your server and deploying your application.
Portal Web Application Organization – Tips on organizing your web applications.
Developer Productivity – Tips for being more productive.
Server Memory and Other Settings – Tweaking your server and domain environment.
Application Location – Notes on how Workshop for WebLogic deploys your application.

Developer’s Quick Start Guide

Introduction