EGL Web Exercises readme

These programs demonstrate the relationship between JSF tags (in a JSP file) and data declarations (in an EGL page handler).

To run the exercises, do as follows:

  1. Right click on webExercisesMenu.jsp in the WebContents directory
  2. Select Run on Server...
  3. Select Choose an existing server
  4. Select WebSphere Application Server v6.0
  5. Click Finish
  6. When the menu page comes up, click the exercise you want to run

Although the menu lists the exercises in order of increasing complexity, they are independent of one another and can be tried in any order.

Each exercise consists of an EGL page handler and an associated JSP file and is intended to illustrate how one basic operation is implemented.

EGL adds a JSP file to the project folder WebContent\WEB-INF when you save the EGL source file, but only in this case:

EGL never overwrites a JSP file.

If you make changes to the page-handler properties or data, you either can edit the JSP file with Page Designer and drop the changed data on the page; or you can delete the JSP file and generate the page handler again.