| <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Chapter 8. Developing Plans</title><meta content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.0" name="generator"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Virgo Tools Guide"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Virgo Tools Guide"><link rel="prev" href="ch07s05.html" title="Migration actions"><link rel="next" href="ch08s02.html" title="Discovery of Plan files in the workspace"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table summary="Navigation header" width="100%"><tr><td align="left" width="20%"><a accesskey="p" href="ch07s05.html">Prev</a> </td><th align="center" width="60%"> </th><td align="right" width="20%"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch08s02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" title="Chapter 8. Developing Plans"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="plans"></a>Chapter 8. Developing Plans</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch08.html#planBenefits">Benefit of using Plan files</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="ch08s02.html">Discovery of Plan files in the workspace</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>In Virgo, applications consisting of multiple bundles can be declared using one or more Plans. | |
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| To create a Plan project, right-click in the | |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Package Explorer</em></span> | |
| and select | |
| <span class="guimenu">New</span> → <span class="guimenuitem">Project…</span> | |
| . In the dialog that opens select | |
| <span class="guimenu">Virgo</span> → <span class="guimenuitem">Plan Project</span> | |
| and press | |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Next</em></span> | |
| : | |
| </p><div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="images/new-plan-project.png" align="middle"></div><p> | |
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| In the New Plan Project dialog, enter a suitable name for the project, set the location to a suitable directory, and press | |
| <span class="emphasis"><em>Next</em></span> | |
| </p><p> | |
| In the next wizard page, you can optionally specify a Plan name to also have a Plan file created for you by the wizard. | |
| </p><p> | |
| When creating additional Plan files, make sure you place them within the source folder. | |
| You can now add Plan files to the Virgo Runtime in Eclipse via the usual add/remove dialog or by means of drag and drop. | |
| </p><div class="section" title="Benefit of using Plan files"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="planBenefits"></a>Benefit of using Plan files</h2></div></div></div><p> | |
| Plan projects and plan files can be used as an alternative to adding individual bundles to the test environment integrated in Eclipse. | |
| The main benefits of using Plan files are: | |
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| Plan files can be more easily shared with coworkers and/or committed to a source code repository | |
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| It may be more convenient to re-order the content of a Plan file using the Eclipse text editor than editing artefact ordering in the Server Editor | |
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| Plan files can be composed of other plan files | |
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| Items in Plan files will be picked either from the workspace or from the configured bundle repositories | |
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| Using Plan files in the test environment is more representative of the production deployment | |
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