Re: Fw: Project Referencing in WebFacing -- WDSCI-L

The Project References are purely a development time function of the base 
Eclipse IDE used by WebFacing.  I believe all that it will impact is the 
Build Path used when compiling Java and JSP's.  It does not have any 
deployment-time consequences nor does it alter or effect the behavior of 
applications.

I believe there are a couple of ways you could accomplish what you want:

1)  Have one giant WebFacing project that contains all of your screens.

2)  A variant of #1 would be to have multiple projects for development but 
merge them back into one project for deployment.

3)  Create your own login system in the web tier that replaces the one 
that comes in WebFacing.  There have been some other messages on the list 
in the past where people have explored mechanisms for programmatically 
logging someone on and invoking a WebFacing session.  If you combined that 
with your own front-end login process that then presented a page with 
appropriate links to the applications (similar to an AS/400 Menu) then you 
could get what you want.  Of course those links would have to employ the 
techniques that have been discussed for passing login credentials to the 
WebFacing servlet.

Note that in scenario #3 each option on their menu will start a unique 
interactive job on the iSeries.  This is just the way it works, if you had 
some need to have a single job so that you could share information within 
that job from one screen to the next, then you would have to pursue 
options 1 or 2.  Likewise if your applications have the ability to launch 
screens from the other applications then you may need to pursue options 1 
or 2 anyway, otherwise those screens will not be available when running 
that other application.

Hope this helps.

Mark





wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/12/2004 12:32:10 PM:

> 
> I am resending this email in hopes that I can get someone from IBM 
> to respond...
> 
> I am having troubles referencing one project to another within 
WebFacing.
> 
> My scenario is that we have an extensive method to logging onto our 
> system. Ideally, it would be nice not to have these programs DDS 
> added to each new project which has to go through the login system. 
> I have created a login project that would always remain in my 
> WebFacing Perspective. What I would like to do is login through the 
> 'login project' which sets up library lists, etc. and display our 
> system menu. >From the menu, I would like to call up a file 
> maintenance program, for example, that has been WebFaced into 
> another project. When I do this, I receive an error indicating that 
> the DDS for the maintenance program cannot be found.
> 
> By going into Properties for a project under tha Navigator view, you
> can select Project References. From here I selected the project I 
> wanted associated with my maintenance program project which is the 
> signon project. I have played around with this for a while a can not
> seem to get it to work.
> 
> Sorry about the lengthy explaination. Any input would be greatly 
appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Gregg Willow
> Programmer/Analyst
> Minnesota Counties Information Systems
> 413 SE 7th Avenue
> Grand Rapids, MN  55744
> 218-326-0381 ext: 17
> gregg.willow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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