Quick Start Guide to the CASA Editor

This tutorial is an introduction to the Composite Application Service Assembly (CASA) Editor provided with NetBeans 6.0.

Expected duration: 30 minutes

Tutorial Requirements

Before you proceed, review the requirements in this section.

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Overview

This tutorial shows how to use the CASA Editor to edit the configuration of a composite application.

The composite application you configure and build is the Synchronous Sample composite application provided with the NetBeans IDE 6.0 distribution. The tutorial illustrates the following:

• Building a composite application from within the CASA Editor
• Deleting a connection to an existing WSDL endpoint in the existing composite application
• Adding a connection to a new WSDL endpoint to the composite application
• Modifying the properties of the new WSDL endpoint
• Deploying the composite application
• Running a test case for the composite application

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Create the Sample Application Project

In this section you create a project for the sample Synchronous Composite Application, which is provided with NetBeans 6.0.

To create the Synchronous Sample Application project:

1. In the NetBeans IDE, select the Projects tab to display the Projects window.
2. From the File menu, select New Project.
3. In the Categories list of the New Project window, select  Samples > SOA > Synchronous BPEL Process and click Next.
   
   
4. Accept the default project name and location (or specify an alternate location using the Browse button).
5. Click Finish to create the project.
   
   The following projects appear in the Projects window:
   
   SynchronousSample, the BPEL project
   SynchronousSampleApplication, the composite application project
   
   

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Open the CASA Editor and Build the Application

This section shows how you can use the CASA Editor to build a composite application.

To open the CASA Editor and build the composite application:

1. In the NetBeans IDE, right-click the SynchronousSampleApplication in the Projects window and select  Edit Application Configuration.
   
   
   
   The CASA Editor opens in the NetBeans IDE, as shown in the next step, displaying the Design View of the Synchronous Sample application.
   
   The CASA Editor creates and modifies a .casa file, which contains the configuration information for the composite application. For this sample, the CASA Editor created the SynchronousSampleApplication.casa file.
2. In the CASA Editor, select the Build Project icon to build the composite application.
   
   
   
   The Output window displays messages about the build.
   
   When the build successfully completes, the Design View displays a WSDL port endpoint, a JBI module, and the connection between the endpoint and the JBI module.
   
   

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Modify the WSDL Bindings of the Composite Application

This section shows how to modify connections between a WSDL port and a JBI module, and also how to add and configure new WSDL ports.

To modify the endpoints of the composite application:

1. In the Design View of the CASA Editor, select the connection between the WSDL port and the JBI module.
2. Delete the selected connection using the Delete key from your keyboard.
   
   You can also right-click the connection and select  Delete to delete the connection.
   
   
3. In the Palette Window of the NetBeans IDE, select the Soap WSDL Binding and drag it to the WSDL Ports area of the CASA Editor.
   
   
4. Select the Consume endpoint of the newly added SOAP Binding and drag it to the Provide endpoint of the JBI module.
   
   This creates a connection between the SOAP Binding and BPEL JBI module.
   
   
5. Click the Edit icon for the newly added SOAP Binding to view it's properties.
   
   This feature allows you to view details of the underlying WSDL without having to navigate through the WSDL file using the WSDL Editor interface.
   
   
6. In the Properties window, click the Edit button for the Location property.
   
   Note that the auto-generated location property is: http://localhost:18181/service
   
   In the following procedure, you will specify this location in a test case for the composite application.
7. Select Cancel in the Location property window and Close in the Properties Window, and save your work.

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Run a Test Case for the Composite Application

This section shows how to test the newly configured composite application.

To run a test case for the composite application:

1. In the Projects Window of the NetBeans IDE, expand the  SynchronousSampleApplication > Test node, right-click the default test case, TestCase0, and select Properties.
   
   
2. In the Properties window for TestCase0, select the Edit button for the Destination property.
3. Replace the default Destination property with the auto-generated destination from the previous procedure, and click OK, and then close the Properties window:
   
   http://localhost:18181/service
4. Right-click the SynchronousSampleApplication node, and select Deploy.
   
   In the Select Server window, specify the GlassFish Application Server.
   
   The Output window informs you when the composite application has been successfully deployed.
5. In the Services window of the NetBeans IDE, expand the servers > GlassFish V2 > JBI > Service Assemblies node.
   
   Notice that the SynchronousSampleApplication Service Assembly has been deployed. You can also view the properties of the Service Units within the Service Assembly to see details of the composite application.
   
   
6. In the Projects window, right-click the TestCase0 and select Run.
   
   The Output window indicates that the test case was successful.
   
   

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See Also

• Connecting Binding Components With the CASA Editor