Novell exteNd 5 Guided Tour

About This Book

Purpose

This Guided Tour introduces you to Novell^® exteNd^TM and shows you how to develop a Web Service and build it into a Web application.

Audience

This Guided Tour is for application developers familiar with building applications that provide a graphical user interface.

Prerequisites

Experience This Guided Tour assumes you are familiar with visual development tools and comfortable with building forms that bind to data sources such as relational databases.

Required software If you installed the Novell exteNd Professional Suite 5.2.1 or Enterprise Suite 5.2.1, everything you need is on your computer.

This includes:

Novell exteNd Application Server 5.2.1
Novell exteNd Composer^TM 5.2.1
Novell exteNd Director^TM 5.2.1

Plus:

MySQL as the database
exteNd LDAP as the LDAP directory
The exteNd Director template project, which includes an exteNd Composer project (these projects are included in the GuidedTour.zip file in Docs/GuidedTour in your exteNd installation directory)

If you don't have the required software, you can download the trial version of Novell exteNd 5 from the download Web site.

Organization

Here's a summary of the lessons you'll find in the Guided Tour:

Lesson		Description
1	Getting Started	Provides an overview of the Guided Tour application and shows you how to set up the Guided Tour project and database
2	Completing the exteNd Composer Project	Shows you how to complete an exteNd Composer application that extracts information from an LDAP directory
3	Deploying and Testing the Web Service	Shows you how to deploy and test the exteNd Composer Web Service component you have created
4	Completing the exteNd Director Project	Shows you how to complete an exteNd Director portlet application that invokes the deployed Web Service

Latest updates

For the latest updates to this Guided Tour and the source files used, go to the documentation Web site.