Summary: Getting Started with BEA Workshop Tutorial

This topic lists the ideas this tutorial introduced, along with links to topics for more information. You may also find it useful to look at the following:

• For an introduction on using Workshop, see Common IDE Tasks.
• For links to other tutorials, see Tutorials in Workshop.
• For a list of the samples provided, see BEA Workshop Samples.

Concepts and Tasks Introduced in This Tutorial

• Workshop is based on the Eclipse platform and many of the Workshop commands will be familiar to Eclipse users. For more information about Eclipse and its features, see http://eclipse.org or from the Workshop window, click Help > Help Contents and choose Workbench User Guide.
• An enterprise application in Workshop is stored in a workspace with its associated project folders and the contents of the projects.
• Workshop projects are typically connected into enterprise applications through a master project called an enterprise application (EAR) project. Single web projects that do not include any web services can be deployed without an EAR project.
• A page flow is a collection of files that implement a user interface function such as logging in. Workshop page flows are based on the NetUI platform. For more information see Web Applications. NetUI uses Java 5 annotations based on JSR-175, the Java specification for metadata annotations.
• Annotations specify metadata, replacing configuration files. An annotation applies to a class or method and directly precedes the class or method definition. Annotations have the form @name(parameters). Annotations are created and updated as you create page flows in Workshop.
• To create a page flow in Workshop, create a dynamic web project. A default page flow is created automatically in the web project. A web project can contain multiple page flows, and you can explicitly create additional page flows in the same web project as needed.
• The initial source files for the default page flow are a controller (Controller.java) and a JSP page (index.jsp). The controller is automatically recognized as a page flow through its annotations when deployed with WebLogic Server.
• As you develop applications with Workshop, you test and debug code on a running instance of WebLogic Server. To test a page flow, you run it on a WebLogic Server and the results are displayed in a dynamically generated browser page in the editor area of the window.

 

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