Sprout Farmer

com.rims.sprout.util.DeployTool

Base Window

The base window is the starting point for the Sprout Farmer's user interface. From here you are able to add descriptors to the list from the local hard drive, remove one from the list, or create a new one. Displayed in the descriptor list is the type of bean that the descriptor describes, as well as the deployment name for that Enterprise Bean and the the filename of the descriptor in the list.

You may also choose to process the selected descriptor. This processing generates the skeleton and stub classes for your bean as well as some supporting classes required by the ServiceTango to deploy your Enterprise Bean. The status window at the bottom of the window is used to display status messages as the classes are being generated.

You may also change the global options for the Sprout Farmer by pressing the "Options" button on the toolbar or by selecting Edit|Options from the menu.


Sprout Farmer Options

Several options can be configured via the Sprout Farmer Options dialog. Three options currently exist. The Temporary Directory, RMIC Path, and the Compile To directory.


Main Tab

The main tab is the start point for editing an individual Enterprise Bean descriptor. There are several entries on this tab that must be filled in to deploy a bean properly.


Entity Attributes

For an entity bean, a one to one mapping exists between an entity bean and a database table. For each instance of an entity bean, that bean needs to be populated with data from the database table. In order to do this, the entity bean's attributes must be matched to column names from the database. This is the screen that allows you to do just that.


Finders

This is the tab used for specifying the finder methods of the home interface and how the SQL is generated to retrieve the entities from the database.


Methods

Deployment