Step 1: Start WebLogic Workshop, Open an Application, and Start WebLogic Server

In this step, you will start the development environment for working with portals.

The tasks in this step are:

Start WebLogic Workshop

Open the Sample Portal Application

The portal application you open contains all the necessary portal resources to complete the tutorial. In Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) terms, this application is an enterprise application that contains Web applications and related resources.

  1. In the WebLogic Workshop menu, choose File-->Open-->Application.
  2. In the Open Workshop Application dialog, select the <BEA_HOME>\weblogic81\samples\portal\portalApp\portalApp.work file and click Open.

    The portalApp application directory tree appears in the Application window.

Start WebLogic Server

To develop portals and portal applications in WebLogic Workshop, WebLogic Server must be running on your development machine. For this tutorial, you will start the domain server used by the WebLogic Portal samples. The portalApp application you opened in the previous step contains all the necessary server configuration settings. To start WebLogic Server:

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