SOA-30: Getting the Most Out of Sonic ™ Workbench Turbo-boost your Development Productivity Sachin Hejip Director, Tooling Center of Expertise Bill Wood.

SOA-30: Getting the Most Out of Sonic™ Workbench

Turbo-boost your Development Productivity

Sachin HejipDirector, Tooling Center of Expertise

Bill WoodFellow

© 2008 Progress Software Corporation2 SOA-30: Getting the Most out of Sonic Workbench

About this Talk

Focus on Sonic Workbench 7.6• But try with 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.x, 7.6.x, etc

Target Audience• Sonic Workbench Users

– Developers– Architects

• Stand-alone or with other PSC tools Suggestion:

• Get a feel for Workbench• Revisit these Suggestions


Agenda

About this Talk Eclipse and Workbench

• Tips and Tricks

Customizing Sonic Workbench Developing Custom Services Eclipse Extensions and Plug-ins

Getting the Most out of Sonic Workbench


Eclipse and Workbench

Quick Navigation Highlighting Most Useful Shortcuts Making your own Perspective Floating Views Export as Image Scenarios

Tips and Tricks


Quick Tricks

Quick Navigation• Within Files

• Within Types

• Between Files

Hold “Ctrl” key and point (then click)• (Or Select and F3)

• Use this – On sonicfs URL’s– In XML, Schema, and WSDL Navigation

Tips and Tricks


Quick Tricks

Highlighting (position cursor, then Ctrl-Shift-U)• Namespaces

• Elements and Attributes

Results shown• With ‘arrow’

• In Search View

• In Overview Bar

Tips and Tricks


Most Useful Shortcuts

Ctrl-Shift-R – Open Resource Ctrl-Shift-E – Goto Editor Ctrl-N – New/Other… (and type – e.g. ‘ESB’)

• File/Import….

Copy As SonicFS URL• In Navigator View…

Restore from Local History…• Revert to previous version

Tips and Tricks


Helping Tech Support

Select Project in Navigator View File/Export…

• General/Archive File

Send to a friend, or send to tech support• [Actually both – Tech Support is your friend]

File/Import…• General/Existing Projects into Workspace

– Select archive file

Create a .zip file for one or more Projects


Creating a .zip file for one or more Projects


Making your own Perspective

Windows>Save Perspective As… Rearrange it Changes persist Save again

Tips and Tricks


Floating Views

When you have more money than sense• Multiple Monitors

• Select a ‘pane’ and make it float

Tips and Tricks


Export as Image

Tips and Tricks

Tip: Show/Hide All firstTip: Show/Hide All first


Scenarios

Scenario Tooltip to View Contents Drag and Drop

• Scenario– And anywhere there is a URL Chooser

Example Documents

Tips and Tricks


Agenda


• Tips and Tricks




Customizing Sonic Workbench

Process Templates• Drag and Drop

• Window > Preferences…– Progress/Sonic/ESB Editors/

ESB Process/Process Templates

Java™ Service Templates• Window > Preferences…

– Progress/Sonic/ESB Editors/ JSDE/Template Location


Additional Notes

Process Templates can be set• Window/Preferences…

– Progress/Sonic/ESB Editors/ESB Process …Process Templates

• In SonicFS– See sonicfs:///System/SonicESB/templates

*.esbpTemplate files

For more info, see Workbench Help – Search on…• “Using Process Templates”

• “Parameterizing resources for process templates”


Agenda


• Tips and Tricks




Developing Custom Services

Choosing a Java Compiler• Window > Preferences…

– Java/Installed JREs

• (Also change setenv.bat, or Java Environment of the dev_ESBTest container)

Java Code Templates• Window > Preferences…

– Java/Editor/Templates

• Type name of template and then Ctrl-Space

Java and Sonic ESB


For the Advanced User

Creating ant scripts for building service type Using your own Build

Java and Sonic ESB


Agenda


• Tips and Tricks




Extending Eclipse

5 New Projects / Month 50 Commonly Used Plug-ins 5,000 Open Source Contributors

Eclipse means you can take advantage of…


Extending Eclipse

SoapUI• See http://www.soapui.org/eclipse

Mylyn• See http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/

CVS and SVN plugins• See http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/

Plug-ins you might find useful


Workbench and other Progress® Tools

Works with:• OpenEdge® Architect

• Stylus XQuery Editor– http://www.xquery.com/xml tools/eclipse/

• DataXtend® Semantic Integrator

Plug-ins you might find useful


In Summary

Workbench is an Eclipse IDE• By developers, for developers

Eclipse is Extensible Workbench is

• Extensible

• Customizable


For More Information, go to…

Progress Update Site:• See http://updates.progress.com


Relevant Exchange Sessions

DEV-2 : Making OpenEdge Architect Work for You (David Lund)

DEV-10: Integrating OpenEdge Architect into your Development Environment (Paul Peterson)

DEV-21: Embracing OpenEdge Architect (Sunil Belgaonkar)

DEV-34: Writing Your Own Plug-ins for OpenEdge Architect (Cornelius Scheffell)


Questions?


Thank You
