BEA® WebLogic Platform 7

Chapter 32. Web Services Made Easy—WebLogic Workshop

In This Chapter

• Overview

• The Need for WebLogic Workshop

• Why WebLogic Workshop?

• WebLogic Workshop Architecture

• The Visual Development Environment

• A Short Tutorial

Overview

This chapter presents WebLogic Workshop (WLW), BEA’s integrated visual development framework and environment for creating enterprise-class Web services. First you delve into the impetus behind WebLogic Workshop and the problems it solves for Web services development. Next is a discussion on WLW architecture and concepts to provide a background for explaining features of the Workshop Visual Development Environment (VDE), Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and Runtime Framework. You will dive into some technical depth on how WLW’s ...