NetBeans Ide:casa Editor Quick Start Guide

This tutorial is a brief introduction to the composite Application service composition (composite Application service Assembly,casa) editor provided in NetBeans 6.1.

Tutorial Requirements

Before you begin, make sure you have an understanding of the system requirements for this section.

Prerequisite conditions

This article assumes that you have basic knowledge of the following technologies:

Composite applications and service-oriented architectures (SOA)

WEB Services

The software required for this tutorial

Before you begin, you need to download and install the following software on your computer:

NetBeans 6.0

Select the Download all option. The Download All option includes the SOA Pack and the GlassFish V2 application Server, which are all necessary for this tutorial.

The NetBeans IDE's window layout

This tutorial assumes that you already have a standard window layout for the NetBeans IDE, which includes the following visual windows:

Project

File

Service

Property

Palette (editor for using the Palette window)

Output

Use the NetBeans IDE's Window menu to change the layout, as needed.

Overview

This tutorial describes how to use the CASA editor to edit the configuration of a composite application.

The composite application that you configure and build is the synchronization sample composite application provided by the NetBeans IDE 6.0 release. This tutorial covers the following:

Building a composite application from the CASA editor

To delete a connection to an existing WSDL endpoint in an existing composite application

To add a new connection to the new WSDL endpoint of a composite application

To modify the properties of a new WSDL endpoint

Deploying composite Applications

Running test cases for composite applications