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Hit the ground running with AIDE, Part 7: Better IT management

Using generic touchpoints

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Level: Intermediate

Stephen B. Morris (stephenbjm@yahoo.com), CTO, Omey Communications

19 Dec 2006

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The IBM® Autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE) facilitates a model-driven approach to touchpoint development, which is a useful, factory-style, wizard-assisted pattern for producing generic touchpoints. However, at some point in the AIDE-driven workflow, the touchpoint must be made specific to a given application. You can do this either at the model design stage or manually through hard-coding. In this tutorial -- the seventh in the series -- discover techniques for creating both generic and specific touchpoints, and learn how to produce touchpoints that have the right mixture for a given management application.

In this tutorial

  • Getting started with generic touchpoints

  • Using generic code

  • Inheritance and the separation of concerns

  • Generic touchpoints

  • The touchpoint hierarchy

Prerequisites

This tutorial is written for programmers who have a reasonable knowledge of Java programming and Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) elements. The ability to use Java EE elements, such as application servers, is helpful but not necessary. Detailed directions are provided throughout so that you can complete the tutorial either in conjunction with or in isolation from the other tutorials in the series.


System requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, the minimum platform requirements are a computer running Windows XP on which you've installed the AIDE software and Axis, Tomcat V5, and Java SE V5.0.



Duration

2 hours


Formats

html, pdf


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