A Skyway Project is the top-level container for Services. As you engage in a development effort, a Project will be used to group all the Skyway Builder resources required to implement the associated services.
As the primary organization mechanism, a Project is used in all aspects of development with Skyway Builder, including construction, version control, and deployment.
In a developer's workspace, a Project is used for storing the results of development activity. Before any services can be constructed, the developer must first create or access a Project. A developer can work on multiple Projects in their workspace at the same time.
Although this tutorial will not cover the Skyway Model Manager, a Project is also used for interacting with the Skyway Model Manager. While the Project components are version controlled independently, the Project is the top-level representation of all the components in the Model Manager.
Services are also deployed using Projects. As a Domain is configured, Projects are used to represent the services that will be deployed to those domains. This tutorial will only cover deploying to the Local Domain.
While the Project construct is used extensively in Skyway Builder, it does not represent a physical boundary between services. A Project can use resources from other Projects.
Here are the steps to create a Skyway Project for the Company Directory application:
Right-click on the desktop and create a New Project
Rename the project to Company Directory
You will have an icon on your desktop representing the Project.
A Skyway Service is a construct for grouping individual services. As services are created in a Skyway Project, they are maintained in a particular Skyway Service.
All the individual services are aggregated and subsequently published at the Skyway Service level. Any Web Service Enabled Skyway Logic Models in a Skyway Service are cumulatively published together in the same WSDL, and all the WSRP Enabled Web Models are cumulatively published in the same WSDL.
Here are the steps to create the Skyway Services for the Company Directory application:
Open the Project Browser by double-clicking on the Company Directory project icon
Right-click on Project name in the Project hierarchy and create a new Skyway Service called Company Admin
Right-click on Project name in the Project hierarchy and create another Skyway Service called Company Search
When complete, your Project folder panel should look as follows:
The next step is to create the data components for the Project.