Importing and Exporting Existing Composite Applications

Use

The following procedures show you how to import or export an existing product (that is, a composite application) using the Composite Designer perspective. You can then review the content of the imported composite application and develop additional functionality on top of it, if required.

You can review the development objects for each layer by choosing from three different levels of detail. This allows you to minimize the development objects for a certain layer in case you have to work with multiple ones located on another layer. The outlook of how the layer development objects are displayed can be selected from the upper-right corner of the corresponding layer.

Or you can define from the Composite Designer menu bar centrally how to development objects for the product are displayed altogether. You can select between three possible options:

  • Collapse all layers

  • Level 1

  • Level 2

You can centrally configure whether you want to display all the existing relations for a selected development object. You can set this using the Show relations button in the Composite Designer menu bar.

Procedure

Importing Existing Composite Applications

  1. From the context menu of the Composite Explorer view, choose Import Product .

  2. From the Import product from field, select the corresponding radio button:

    • File System , in case you want to import from the local file system

    • Development Configuration , in case you want to import from a remote repository.

  3. Select the product source depending on the option you have chosen:

    • File System : Specify the file location in the corresponding file system and choose Finish .

    • Development Configuration : From the dropdown list of the Development Configuration field, choose the right Development Configuration (if different from the default).

Exporting Existing Composite Applications

  1. From the context menu of the Composite Explorer view, choose Export Product .

  2. Enter or browse to the folder name to which you want to export the product archive.

  3. From the Target Content field, select one of the radio buttons:

    • Include sources

    • Exclude sources

  4. Choose Finish .