Re: [wtp-dev] I20050429 Experience

[Kathy Chan <kathy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Arthur,

Here's my comments to your findings:

1. Yes.  The Flexible Project UI
is different.  I've updated the Web services tutorials to reflect
this.
2. Yes.  The default behaviour
is to launch the external browser (I agree that it would be a more consistent
experience if the default is left as using Internal Browser, may be a defect
can be opened on the Web browser component).  To use the internal
browser or to use IE instead of Netscape, change the default Web Browser
by using Window -> Preferences -> General -> Web Browser.
3. We have tested successfully with
both RPC/Encoded and Doc/Literal deploying to Axis 1.0.  You might
have run into a server startup timing issue.  Please open a defect
 with details on the error you got from Axis deploy and the exact
steps to reproduce.
4. It's a known problem with M4 that
the Next button is always enabled in the Web Services and
Web Services Client wizard (defect 93269).
 The workaround is to click Finish on the last page.  I've
listed this (together with other known problems users might hit) in the
Known Problems section of the Web Services M4 News and Noteworthy document:

 http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/jst/components/ws/M4/news/jst-ws-m4news.html
(the Web services M4 tutorials can also be found under this link)


Kathy Chan
Rational Studio Java Web Services, IBM Toronto Lab
D3-354, D3/R8V/8200/MKM, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario, Canada,
L6G 1C7
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Arthur Ryman/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA
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29/04/2005 06:00 PM

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Subject	[wtp-dev] I20050429 Experience

I did some sanity checking of the latest build as of 5pm. I hit a large
number of mostly minor problems. 

1. The new Flexible Project UI is very different and requires some training.
I'm not sure it's more difficult, just different. This makes virtually
all of our tutorials in need of revision. 
2. I created a Web module on Tomcat 5.0 and an index.html page. When I
ran this on the server, the external Web Browser was launched.
3. I created a Java class and created a Web service from it. It initially
failed to deploy to Axis 1.0. I switched from RPC/Encoded to Doc/Literal
and retried, this time successfully - maybe a server synch problem?
4. The Web Service wizard got stuck on the "Web Service Publication"
page. Clicking Next just relaunched the JSP client. I had to click Finish
to escape. 

So in summary, this was a rocky experience. I would only give this candidate
a pass if we followed it quickly it with some good docs, e.g. updated tutorials,
and listed known problems and workarounds. 

Arthur Ryman,
Rational Desktop Tools Development

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