Developing WDK based applications with WDK 6.5

spilker

How to i develop a WDK based application with WDK 6.5? I want to develop an application based on Webtop 6.5. With WDK 5.3 the WDK 5.3 Installer lets me decide to clone an existing WDK application (webtop) under a new virtual root (making all the additions to Webtop like adding source code etc). I can than import this virtual root as an Eclipse project and make my additions.

All 6.5 based WDK applications are delivered as .war files. I had to unpack the file, make additions to dfc.properties, repack the file and deploy it to the server. So what i tried is: Unpack Webtop and WDK and copy all the files from WDK into Webtop directory, making addtions to dfc.properties, repack and deploy. However when i access the application i didn´t get the expected Webtop application but a WDK login instead. So just copying seems not to be the correct solution. Which files from the WDK war do i have to copy to the Webtop war if i want to get the same effect like with the cloning when using the WDK 5.3 installer?

My next question: When i import the virtual root into a Java project as i´m used with 5.3 applications and do my modifications, everything will be lost after the next restart of the application server as the .war file is deployed again.

Greetings, Jörg

michael.siment

First of all about your problem with the redeployment of the war file: After the first deployment, the war file should be deleted in the tomcat webapps directory (please do that, when tomcat isn't running, otherwise it will undeploy the application).

I would not put the whole wdk.zip into the webtop folder. What I do is to find out which component I want customize. Next I look which classes has to be customized. The sources can be found in the WDK zip. Your eclipse project has to contain the jars, that tomcat loads for webtop (webinf/lib directory) in the classpath. Additionally I would put the WDK Classes and Sources into Classpath, so that you can easily reach the source Code of the WDK classes in Eclipse.

Customized config files, nls properties and jsp pages should be always put into the custom directory of webtop. Custom classes can be put into webinf/classes.

For a comfortable working I would suggest to use ant scripts in eclipse to automatically copy your files to right directories in the tomcat webtop directory.