
	Core Development Guide

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PART I Concepts

1 About Novell exteNd Director

Novell exteNd Director

Director subsystems

Director tools

Custom Web applications

J2EE 1.2 and 1.3 compliance

Workbench integration

Director wizards and editors

Application server and database support

2 About the Novell exteNd Director Application Architecture

Director project structure

EAR project structure

WAR project structure

Pieces of a Director application

Subsystem architecture

Subsystem archives

Subsystem deployment dependencies

How the subsystems register themselves with the framework

About the subsystems.xml file and the simulated classpath

How the subsystems access persistent data

How the subsystems access application resources

3 Using the Resource Set in a Director Application

Role of a resource set in your application

What to put in a resource set

Subdirectories for resources and Java classes

Workbench projects for a resource set

Binding subsystems to a resource set

Configuring the resource set

Variables

General settings

Types and locations of resources: resourcePath, libPath

Directory keys for indexing

Dynamic loading of resources and classes

Using events to report resource set changes

Working with listeners

Types of events

What listeners do

Validating a resource set

Storing XML files that contain MBCS characters

4 Coding Java for Director Applications

About coding Java for Director applications

Using Java

Java platform support

About the core language

About APIs

Resources for learning Java

Using the Java APIs

Resources for learning J2EE

Using the Director API

Director API packages

Director API terminology

Director API reference documentation

Accessing subsystem services

Accessing a subsystem service by using a delegate

Getting a direct reference to a subsystem manager

5 Using the Director Tag Libraries

About the Director tag libraries

Adding the JAR and TLD files to your project

Using a custom tag in a JSP page

6 Developing a Struts Application

About Struts

Understanding MVC

How Struts implements MVC

Example

Extending Struts with Director services

Business logic

Business process

Dynamic content

How to implement Struts with Director services

7 Handling Errors and Logging Information

About error handling

Errors thrown by the Director API

Avoiding errors

Catching errors

Displaying messages

Displaying errors in the user's language

Logging information as your application runs

Uses for logging

What gets logged

Configuring the logs

Using logs in your application

Logging API

Getting a log

Setting the detail level

Adding messages to the log

Sample code for logging in a component

8 Using the XML and IPDR Logging Providers

About the XML and IPDR logging providers

Working with XML templates

Working with IPDR templates

Built-in properties

Sample portal component using XML and IPDR logging

PART II Tools

9 Configuring a Director Application

About configuring Director applications

Creating a new Director project

Reconfiguring your Director project

Changing the configuration

Adding subsystems

Removing or disabling subsystems

Adding a custom Web application to the project

Updating your Director project

Editing the configuration of a resource set

Using boolean variables in check box fields

Working with entries for resourcePath and libPath

Using resource set utilities

10 Using the Relationship Viewer

About the Relationship Viewer

Navigating relationships within a resource set

Creating a custom relationship analyzer

Creating a relationship analyzer class

11 Searching a Resource Set

About the Search tab

Searching a resource set

Saving a search as a view

Working with the Search API

Example: using the internal search template object

Example: creating your own search template object

Example: serializing a search request

12 Working with Views

About views

Displaying a view

Importing resources into a view

Exporting resources from a view

Defining custom views

About the view definition file

Searching for items within a resource set

Defining folders in a view

Including elements that are outside a view's resource set

Referencing other views within a view definition

13 Using the Cache Coordinator

About the Cache Coordinator

Configuring the Cache Coordinator

Running the Cache Coordinator

Recovering from a Cache Coordinator failure

Logging and debugging

14 Deploying a Director Application

About deploying a Director application

Deploying a Director EAR project

Basic deployment steps in Workbench

Defining a server profile

Deploying to the SilverStream and Novell application servers

Deploying to BEA WebLogic

Deploying to IBM WebSphere

Changing your deployment configuration

15 Application Administration Using the PAC

About the PAC

Accessing the PAC

Logging in to the PAC

Using the PAC

16 Application Configuration Using the PAC

17 Using Dreamweaver with Director

About Director integration with Dreamweaver

Inserting Director component tags in Dreamweaver

Installing the Director extension for Dreamweaver

Inserting a component tag into a Dreamweaver page

Configuring Director to display PID pages from Content Management

PART III Reference

18 Framework Tag Library

19 Using the Debug Subsystem

About the Debug subsystem

How it works

Security considerations

Setting up the Debug subsystem

Running the Debug subsystem

Going to the Debug home page

Reporting on Director resources

Reporting on HTTP resources

Reporting on JNDI resources

Reporting on Director archive resources


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