Setting up Objectwiz with a sample application: the DVD Store
The DVD Store (from Seam framework) is a classic example of EJB3 three-tier application. This chapter explains how to set up Objectwiz to administrate the data of the DVD store, however these steps apply for any other JEE enterprise application.
The DVD Store
Browsing the object graph (current object: the film "The Nun's Story" with Audrey Hepburn)
Prerequisites
In order to follow this tutorial, you will need the following items:
A JBoss server instance.
JBoss 4.x is recommended since there are some issues with 5.x versions and a version 6 is still a milestone version at the moment. Latest available community version is then 4.2.3.GA.
The DVD Store application.
It is available in the releases of Seam. Seam 2.1.2 is the recommended version to download when targetting a JBoss 4.2 server.
The latest release of Objectwiz.
It is available here.
After downloading the files, extract them to separate directories. These directories will be refered below as jboss/, seam/ and objectwiz/.