Webtop and low level implementation: in need of an information

Long story short, I *MIGHT* be in need of editing some low-level behaviour of the front-end client and possibly I'd avoid building a front-end from scratch, being quite new to documentum as a whole...

That being said, I've done the usual drill, some quick ui modification, menù modification, setting behaviour, just to get a quick hang on the product but...

I was trying to edit how webtop handle document opening, and while it's best practice to just extend the required class and for example modify a component to use a custom launcher and use a custom defined branch when needed&abuse the superclass method in every other case, I tried to take a peek on the implementation of the class i was extending from and.. I was quite baffled that there was just the .class file and no source file.. Is that normal? I tried to look for the source file within both webtop and wdk at no avail (i deployed both wdk and webtop as indipendent webapp on the application server).

Of course I can cover with a little work (since I'm going completely blind about low-level implementation) solve almost any issue helping myself with the developer guide&reference guide for webtop/wdk, but I'd really prefer to have some source code of sorts without undergoing the usual JD-clipse drill (which is generally pretty accurate, mind you, but I prefer to have some clear&commented code when dealing with new products)..

Am I out of luck? Did I do anything wrong while deploying webtop/wdk?

For reference, I was looking for LaunchComponentWithPermitCheck.java from package com.documentum.web.formext.action.

Thanks in advance to anyone bothering with an answer to a silly noob question.

Vito

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lastnitescurry

Only some of Webtop and WDK source is shipped. If you want more you will have to decomplie. Personally when I am ramping up on a Webtop project I create a reference library by:

a) unpack webtop war, into folder WebContent

b) unpack wdk.war , into folder WebContent

c) unpack unstripped.jar from webtop.war , into folder WebContent

d) create a src folder to hold java sources

e) move all "src" folders {wdk/src, webcomponent/src, webtop/src} into src folder

At this point you will have a pretty good refence library and a good lump of sample code. If you want to add decompling then do so before step e.

Step "b" gives you unstripped jsp files. This are definately much better to customise and extend. Makes life eaiser for folks you need to do maintain your work

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dnvhariprasad

Hi,

Welcome to the forums!!!

Even as a newbie you understand the framework quiet well about what to do and how to do the basic things.

Since WDK is a proprietary product, they did not expose the low level code of their application. However you can download the WDK Samples(not webtop) where you can have many src files where you can study the code to extend it for your purposes.

You need to download them separately as they are not bundled with webtop.

Again this forums is the rich source as long as you have sufficient time to dig through it as excellent information is buried here. Most unfortunate thing is even the search in this forums will not return the results quiet well.

lastnitescurry

Only some of Webtop and WDK source is shipped. If you want more you will have to decomplie. Personally when I am ramping up on a Webtop project I create a reference library by:

a) unpack webtop war, into folder WebContent

b) unpack wdk.war , into folder WebContent

c) unpack unstripped.jar from webtop.war , into folder WebContent

d) create a src folder to hold java sources

e) move all "src" folders {wdk/src, webcomponent/src, webtop/src} into src folder

At this point you will have a pretty good refence library and a good lump of sample code. If you want to add decompling then do so before step e.

Step "b" gives you unstripped jsp files. This are definately much better to customise and extend. Makes life eaiser for folks you need to do maintain your work

witchedwiz

I appreciate the effort.. Since it's a proprietary solution I feared as much, but as the saying goes, trying is always free..

This being said...

dnvhariprasad Yeah I've already done a quick dig both through the forums and though the sample repository on emcdn (zigged through a few articles and some code snippets), I suspect I *should* be able to cover some stuff..

I'll be sure to dip through the latter as I'm considering to start a client from scratches after my first project (in this one I'll limit myself to customizing webtop/taskspace i guess), for I've found webtop a tad too slow.. I hope that this behaviour is related to the repository being on a shared server, hence having some performance issue server-side.

Brian Dinneen Thanks for the tip, although I've already taken some of those steps (i just left unstripped.jar alone, and I take out stuff when needed).. Luckily with minimal-to-no settings JD-Clips provide me on-the-fly decompiling when opening a class via "open declaration" option, so I guess I'll content myself with this much.

Great community by the way.. Usually since a question like this is a trifling matter to more navigated users, it would have gone unasnwered, so getting not one but two answers was a pleasant surprise.

dnvhariprasad

Let me know if JD-clipse was unable to decompile properly any of the class. I have a magic wand so that I can share that particular java file with you.. send me a private message whenever you need it..