Manage Your Component Exchange
If your team develops custom components for visual applications and want the components to be available to all users in the Visual Builder Components tab, you'll need to first set up a component exchange. This chapter tells you how to set up the Component Exchange in Visual Builder.
What is a Component Exchange?
A component exchange is a repository of custom components available in VB Studio. You can use these components in your visual applications, such as web components and application templates. Many of the components provided by Oracle can be installed from a component exchange.
To integrate a component exchange with a instance, you provide the exchange's URL and credentials in the Tenant Settings. The exchange can be a private exchange in a VB Studio project or one of the exchanges maintained by Oracle.
If your organization develops or uses proprietary components, these components can be published to a private exchange hosted by a VB Studio project. For example, if you have a web component designed to be used in applications in your tenant, you can set up your own exchange and use it to distribute the component to developers in the tenant. Additionally, components provided by Oracle are automatically available from all private component exchanges.
Oracle maintains two component exchanges containing components validated by Oracle that are publicly available to all developers. If you don't have a private exchange but you want to give developers access to these Oracle components, you can add one of the following exchanges maintained by Oracle. If your instance is in the US, use the following details.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| URL | https://devinstance4wd8us2-wd4devcs8us2.uscom-central-1.oraclecloud.com/profile/devinstance4wd8us2-wd4devcs8us2/s/devinstance4wd8us2-wd4devcs8us2_compcatalog_3461/compcatalog/0.2.0 |
| Username | comp.catalog |
| Password | bXwphh6RMFjn#g |
If your instance is in Europe, use the following details.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| URL | https://devinstance4wd8em2-wd4devcs8em2.eucom-north-1.oraclecloud.com/profile/devinstance4wd8em2-wd4devcs8em2/s/devinstance4wd8em2-wd4devcs8em2_compcatalog_1681/compcatalog/0.2.0 |
| Username | comp.catalog |
| Password | !!MWtu4jsQ56wM |
Add a Connection to a Component Exchange
When an instance is integrated with a component exchange, all developers using the instance can access and install components stored there.
After an exchange is added to the instance, all developers can use the Components tab in the Navigator to install and manage the components from the exchange that they want to use in their applications. When creating an application in the Create Application wizard, developers can also select any of the application templates that have been published to the exchange.
To add a connection to the Component Exchange:
- In the Component Exchange Credentials dialog box, enter the username and password for the user whose credentials will be used to authenticate access to the Component Exchange. Click Save.
Description of the illustration admin-settings-componentexchange.pngIf you are adding a connection to a private component exchange, it is recommended that the credentials you provide are for an administrator who is a member of the VB Studio project hosting the exchange or the project owner.