Starting an assembly tool

The Application Server Toolkit, Rational Web Developer and Rational Application Developer assembly tools provide a graphical interface for developing code artifacts, assembling the code artifacts into various archives (modules) and configuring related Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) deployment descriptors.

Before you begin

Before you can assemble code artifacts into modules, install an assembly tool. One or more assembly tools are available on CD-ROM in the WebSphere Application Server CD-ROM package. To install an assembly tool, follow the installation instructions for the tool that are on its CD-ROM.

If you have installed an assembly tool previously and you install an assembly tool again, you must delete the workspace of the previous installation of the assembly tool before starting it. The default workspace directory is my_directory/eclipse/workspace. If you do not delete the workspace for a previous installation, you might encounter error messages such as the following when starting the assembly tool:

Problems during startup. Check the ".log" file in the ".metadata" 
directory of your workspace.

Procedure

  1. Run the eclipse executable. For information on parameters that you can specify when starting the eclipse executable, refer to the article "Running Eclipse" in the assembly tool online help. Click Help > Help Contents > Workbench User Guide > Tasks > Running Eclipse.
  2. In the Workspace Launcher dialog, specify the workspace directory and click OK to launch the graphical interface.

Results

The navigation tree displays a hierarchical structure used to build the contents of a new module, or to work with the contents of an existing module.

What to do next

After you start an assembly tool, configure it. Next, consider whether you have any existing J2EE 1.2 or 1.3 application modules that you would like to migrate to J2EE 1.4.

You can import or create new modules of the following types, to assemble into an application module later:

Rather than import or create new modules to assemble an application, you can proceed directly to assembling a new application module. While assembling an application module, you can create any new modules that you need.




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