Setting up the development environment

This topic describes how to setup your development and testing tools to facilitate the development of console modules.

IBM provides WebSphere Application Server Toolkit to quickly develop, test, and deploy your portlet applications. You can also add the IBM Integrated Solutions Console Visual Designer feature, available for download at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg24011666.

Use Visual Designer to develop the topology and security descriptors necessary to convert portlet applications into console modules that you can deploy into Integrated Solutions Console. Visual Designer is supported for use with Application Server Toolkit.

After you download Visual Designer, add it to your development environment by clicking Help > Software Updates > IBM Rational Product Updater from the menu bar of Application Server Toolkit. Visual Designer is installed the same way other features are installed. Refer to the Application Server Toolkit help for more information.

Use Visual Designer to 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 JSP files are not rendered when you log in to the application server. If so, you probably need to check the reloadingEnabled attribute in the extended deployment descriptor for the module (ibm-web-ext.xmi) Make sure this value is set to true to enable the JSP file to reload each time you deploy a new change. See Hot deployment and dynamic reloading for more information.

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