HCL Web Experience Factory Designer | HCL Digital Experience

Overview

HCL Web Experience Factory Designer is a tool for developing Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Web applications and portlets. Web Experience Factory Designer is a plugin to Eclipse-based integrated development environments (IDEs). Working in the Web Experience Factory perspective in Eclipse, you create projects, for which you use builders and profile sets to develop models and generate the resulting Web applications from those models.

Each builder has a wizard user interface through which you specify input. The builder automatically generates or modifies part of the application. Profiles in profile sets let you tailor one application and generate multiple versions, for example, a different version for different human languages or different user groups. You assemble builders in models to implement a user interface or a data service. If you make a change in the inputs to a builder in a model, the application code is regenerated. The regeneration lets you iteratively develop an application. The builders generate all the necessary application code, including JSPs, Java classes, and XML documents. You use builders to implement design patterns to facilitate iterative development.

The HCL Digital Experience server framework provides multiple services, for example, page navigation and collaboration features. The Web Experience Factory Designer also facilitates the creation of new builders and profiles.

Using Web Experience Factory Designer online help

Web Experience Factory Designer provides context-sensitive help for all features and functions. You can access help in several ways:

F1 key

All Web Experience Factory Designer windows and dialogs provide context-sensitive help that describes the tasks supported by the window or dialog. To view this help, place the pointer in a window or dialog to establish context and press the F1 key.

Help button

Builder call editors provide a Help button that you can use to access configuration help for the builder. Eclipse Help menu item.

Web Experience Factory installs a documentation plugin into the Eclipse Help system. This plugin runs within the context of the Eclipse help engine, and can be accessed from the Eclipse Help menu. To access Web Experience Factory help in Eclipse, click Help > Help Contents to open the Eclipse SDK Help window. From Contents, click Web Experience Factory Designer to display the introductory page.