With the excellent new SOA-P 4.3 tooling in JBDS 2.0 (ESB project wizard, jboss-esb.xml file editor, ESB quickstart example importer, jBPM project creator, and jBPM JPDL editor), creating SOA-P 4.3 applications has become much easier.
The first step to using these new features is to configure JBDS 2.0 to use a SOA-P 4.3 server instance. This wiki will demonstrate how to do that.
Prerequisites:
Install Java 1.5
Install SOA-P 4.3 GA
Install JBDS 2.0.0.CR1
First, we can just start the default JBDS 2.0 IDE.
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Now, we need to right-click in the "Servers" tab and add a new server.
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We'll change the server name to SOA-P as shown above and then need to add a new server runtime environment by clicking the "Add..." link.
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As shown above, we can give it a descriptive name, set the home directory to be the "jboss-as" directory in SOA-P 4.3, and pick our server configuration (I usually use the "all" configuration). Now click the "Finish" button to get back to the New Server dialog.
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We can select our new Server runtime environment as shown above and click the "Next" button.
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Again, we just click the "Next" button.
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If we had existing project to add to the SOA-P server, we could do that now, but we don't, so just click "Finish".
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That's it! Now we can just right-click on the server and start it and/or add projects to it like we would any other server.
