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Use

The structure of a Portal Application Standalone DC (development component) corresponds to the structure of an Enterprise Portal Application project. When a DC is built, an SDA (software deployment archive) file is created, ready to be deployed on a server.

Procedure

Task

Procedure

Create a new development component

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path File Next navigation step New Next navigation step  Project End of the navigation path.

  2. Choose Start of the navigation path Development Infrastructure Next navigation step Development Component End of the navigation path, and click Next .

  3. Choose Start of the navigation path Enterprise Portal Next navigation step Portal Application Standalone End of the navigation path.

  4. Choose the Software Component from the list where you want to add the development component, and choose Next .

  5. Specify the component name, and choose Next .

  6. Choose Create an empty project , specify the archive name, and set the deployment type to EAR SDA .

  7. Choose Finish .

Import a Portal Application DC project from the DTR

  1. Log on to the DTR system

    Under the Design Time Repository perspective, choose the Log on... icon.

  2. Under the Development Configurations perspective, open the Inactive DCs view.

  3. Explore the content of Development Configuration and identify the portal development component you created in DTR.

  4. Right-click the development component and click Create project .

  5. Select the development components you want to sync and choose OK .

Check in an activity

  1. Open the DTR perspective.

  2. Go to the Open Activities view.

  3. Open the activity context menu and click Check in .

Create public parts

Follow the procedure described in Managing Public Parts

Caution

Do not expose through public parts any entities located in the src.core folder, because they will not be available at runtime, even though the project will compile. You can expose entities from the src.api folder.