WebLogic Workshop IDE Quick Tour

Move your cursor around the image of the WebLogic Workshop IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Tooltips will appear that explain the various area of the user interface.

The IDE operates on one application at a time. The Application tab presents a tree view of the application. The Files tab presents an alphabetical, filtered list of all files in the application. The Property Editor displays properties for the currently selected entity in the Edit Pane. The Document Structure pane displays a structured view of the methods and fields in the class or interface being edited. The Edit Pane displays either a Source View or a Design View appropriate for the current file being edited. When you select an entity in the Edit Pane, the entity's properties are displayed in the Property Editor. The Output Pane displays various forms of information that are generated when you run or debug the application. The Server Status area indicates whether the associated instance of WebLogic Server is currently running. The Status Bar displays messages indicating the state of the IDE. The Memory Monitor displays the current heap size and maximum heap size since the IDE was started, in megabytes. The Data Palette displays a structural list view of the methods or attributes of controls and tags. As you drag items from the Data Palette to the Edit Pane, code is inserted in the current entity to access the item you dragged. The Palette contains often-used items you may wish to add to the entity in the Edit Pane. You may drag an item from the Palette to the Edit Pane to create a new item of that type.

The WebLogic Workshop IDE adapts itself in several ways to the type of file being edited. The file being edited in the preceding image is a Java Web Service, or JWS file. The image shows the Design View for a web service. There are custom design views and custom source editors for all of the file types that WebLogic Workshop creates.

Filtering Files and Directories in the Application Tree View Tab

You can prevent files and directories located in your application directory from appearing in the tree view of the WebLogic Workshop Application tab. Workshop already filters certain file types and directory names by default. To make adjustments to these filters, simply open the applications .work file located in the applications root directory and change the value of the excludedirs or excludefiles attributes. These attributes are listed in red below:

<option name="excludedirs" value="cvs;sccs;rcs;" />
<option name="excludefiles" value="\..*|.*\.[0-9]+|wlw_[0-9]+\..*" />

The excludedirs attribute lists the names of directories WebLogic Workshop will not list in the Application tab's tree view. Alter the regular expression value of the excludefiles attribute if you want WebLogic Workshop to exclude certain types of files.

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