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Set up the development environment

 

This topic describes how to setup your development and testing tools to facilitate the development of console modules. IBM provides the following tool that enables you to quickly develop, test, and deploy your portlet applications.

You can also add the Integrated Solutions Console in WAS Portal Application Archive (PAA) Visual Designer plugin, available for download at the Integrated Solutions Console in WAS PAA Visual Designer download site. For additional information, see www.ibm.com/support. Use the plugin to develop the topology and security descriptors necessary to convert portlet applications into console modules that you may deploy into an Integrated Solutions Console in WAS console. The PAA Visual Designer is supported for use with Application Server Toolkit, version 6.1. Follow these steps to add the PAA Visual Designer plugin to Application Server Toolkit.

  1. Confirm that Application Server Toolkit is not running.

  2. Download PAA Visual Designer.

  3. Extract the download package to the /eclipse directory in the Application Server Toolkit.

  4. Start Application Server Toolkit.

After installing the PAA Visual Designer plugin, you can add the portal topology and security descriptors to your JSR 168 portlet application projects. See online documentation for details.

As you test your console modules, you might discover that changes that you make to the JSPs are not rendered when you log in to the application server. If so, you probably need to check the reloadingEnabled attribute in the module's extended deployment descriptor (ibm-web-ext.xmi) Make sure this value is set to true to enable the JSP to reload each time you deploy a new change. See Hot deployment and dynamic reloading for more information.