Getting the Most from the Studio Eclipse Plugin Framework

ALDSP dataspaces are initially created as projects in the Studio Eclipse plugin framework. The Eclipse IDE is a rich, open development environment.

While some aspects of Eclipse are described in this section, no attempt is made to replicate the large body of documentation available for Eclipse developers.

References

Data Services Studio

Version 3.2
Data Services Studio has become part of Workspace Studio 1.1. The term Studio refers to both versions unless otherwise noted.

Studio run inside the Eclipse framework.

Studio Artifacts in the ALDSP Perspective

Artifact	Purpose
Project Explorer	Contains project artifacts including data services and their functions.
Properties editor	Contains read/write and read only properties associated with the selected artifact. For example a function may be set to public, protected, or private through its Properties editor.
Outline manager	Provides a scrollable view of your model, query, or update mapper. This is particularly useful in large projects since the work area may not be large enough to show all the artifacts.
Console	The console appears whenever the server is accessed.
Servers tab	Display the status of the ALDSP server which in turn provides clients with access to data services and their underlying data sources.
Problems tab	Displays problems encountered by the project.
Error Log tab	Displays errors associated with the project.

The Windows > Show View menu option can be used to add additional windows to the perspective.

In addition, several ALDSP Perspective menu options are provided under:

File > New

These allow you to, first, create an ALDSP dataspace project and then to add various types of data services, models and web service mapper.

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