RADE

Before Starting to Write your JAVA Code

Before starting, install the JID product provided on the RADE CD. Make sure that IRAD has previously been installed on the machine because the RADE installation detects it and installs the JAVA Interactive Dashboard within its environment. If you install IRAD after JID, you must manually launch the Setup tool provided with RADE. Refer to Customizing the RADE tools for more information on the Setup tool.

Once the JAVA Interactive Dashboard has been installed, you can start IRAD. If the CAA Project menu is not available in your JAVA Perspective, customize IRAD to make it available, as described in Activating IRAD Customization.

Creating a CAAV5 JAVA Project

The type of project you create depends on the type of application you are targeting. If you want to create a CAAV5 Java Application, or if you want to create JAVA code to integrate into the LCA Portal, create a CAA V5 Project.

This procedure shows you how to create a CAAV5 JAVA Project. If you have already created your workspace, please refer to How to Work on a Workspace in the JAVA Dashboard.

1. From the File menu, select New->Project. The New Project window opens.
2. Select Java Project. Click Next. The New Java Project window opens.
3. Enter the name of the project and click Finish.

Once the project has been created in IRAD, open it.

4. Right-click your project in the Navigator view and select Open CAAV5 Workspace. This step is described in How to Work on a Workspace in the JAVA Dashboard.
5. Populate the workspace with frameworks and modules. They are both available in the Wizards.

Creating a CAAV5 Web Project

The type of project you create depends on the type of application you are targeting. If you want to create a CAAV5 Java Application to integrate into Websphere Application Server, create a CAAV5 Web Project.

This procedure shows you how to create a CAAV5 Web Project. The first step is standard IRAD procedure to create a Web Project. If you have already created your workspace, please refer to How to Work on a Workspace in the JAVA Dashboard.

1. From the File menu, select New->Project. The New Project window opens.
2. Expand the Web node and select Dynamic Web Project. Click Next. The New Web Project window opens.
3. Enter the name of the project and click Finish. Do not modify the Context root default value given by IRAD.

Once the project has been created, open it.

4. Right-click your project in the Navigator view and select Open CAAV5 Workspace. This step is described in How to Work on a Workspace in the JAVA Dashboard.
5. Create new frameworks and modules. This step is described in the next section.

Creating Frameworks and Modules

Creating a Framework

1. From the File menu, select New->Other. The New dialog box is displayed.
2. Expand the CAA Elements node, and select CAAV5 Framework. Click Next. The New Framework window opens.

3. Click OK. The JAVA interactive dashboard will create the new framework file tree in your workspace and integrate it inside the IRAD Project.

Creating a Module

1. From the File menu, select New->Other. The New dialog box displays.
2. Expand the CAA Elements node, and select CAAV5 Module. Click Next. The New Java Module window opens.

3. Click OK. The JAVA interactive dashboard creates the new module in your workspace and integrates it into the Project.

You can now then define your CAA V5 Prerequisites as described in Set up Prerequisites, and start your JAVA coding using standard IRAD functionalities.

Getting javadoc Tooltips for Prerequisite Code

If you want to get standard IRAD javadoc tooltips mechanism for prerequisite code (which is not in your current project), the prerequisite frameworks/java modules need to be built using the command mkmk -a -zip. The -zip option produces java source archive files .zip while compiling, and the zip file for each java module is located in MyModule.mj\Objects\intel_a\MyModule.zip.

Once zip files are correctly built for prerequites, run CAA Project->Get prerequisites... or CAA Project->Update libpath based on makefile... for your current project. This will automatically reference these zip files as Java Source Attachment for each jar in the classpath. Then you will get standard javadoc tooltips mechanism for all java classes even if the source code is not in your current project.

Getting javadoc in Standard External Browser

If you want to get javadoc in the standard external browser for your java classes and prerequisites java classes, you need to have javadoc built in your workspace and in each prerequisite workspace:

• For java code delivered by Dassault Systemes (i.e. CATJDialog classes), html files for javadoc are delivered in install_dir/Doc/docs/api directory.
• For other prerequisites (not from Dassault Systemes), build the html files for javadoc in a directory named prereq_ws_dir/Doc/docs/api. This documentation can be built with the standard javadoc command.
• For java classes in your IRAD project, the command CAA Project->Generate javadoc... generates automatically the javadoc in directory your_workspace_dir/Doc/docs/api.

Once html files for javadoc are correctly created in Doc/docs/api directories for your prerequisites and for your current workspace, relaunch the command CAA Project->Get prerequisites... or CAA Project->Update libpath based on makefile.... After that, you can place the cursor over the element whose Javadoc information you want to view (a class name or a method name, for example), press Shift+F2. The standard external browser is opened showing the corresponding documentation.

In Short

Now you are ready to work using both the Java Interactive Dashboard environment and CAA V5 tools. The next article we advise you to read is Working with the RADE Dashboard [1] where you will find explanations about how to use others commands. If you are familiar with mkmk commands or Workspace Manager commands, you will find the corresponding Java Dashboard menus and commands in Workbench Commands Mapping [2].

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