Working with App Factory Applications

You can use Developer Studio to connect to a WSO2 App Factory instance and work with applications that are in the Development stage, including checking out an application, modifying its artifacts, deploying and committing the application, and viewing its build logs. To access the App Factory functionality, open the App Factory perspective.

Important: If you are using Developer studio P2 instead of the complete installation distribution, you need to update your Egit plugin before you use the AppFactory tooling feature.

Opening the App Factory perspective

To open the App Factory perspective, click Switch to App Factory perspective on the Developer Studio dashboard, or choose Window > Open Perspective > Other and select AppFactory. When prompted, log in to your App Factory instance. You can also specify your App Factory login information by going to the Eclipse Preferences page and expanding Developer Studio > App Factory.

The App Factory perspective appears, displaying your applications in the application list in the upper right corner (click Refresh to update the list). Details about the currently selected application are displayed in the lower right corner, and the build console is displayed in the lower center.

Working with an application

To get started, right click on the application and click Open. The available branches will be listed under application. Right-click the branch you want to work with and click Check Out. Right click again and select Import to workspace. 

The application appears in the Project Explorer.

You can now navigate through the application's artifacts and double-click them to edit them in the Developer Studio editor.

You can also right-click an application root in the application list and update the application or change its repository settings.

To trigger a build, right-click the project from the application list view and click Deploy. The build logs appear in the console at the bottom of the window. To view the latest build logs for a specific branch, right-click the branch in the application list and click Build Logs.

When you have finished making changes, you can check in the updated files by right-clicking the project in the Project Explorer and clicking Team > Commit.

Enter your user name and email address, and click OK. Enter a commit message and select the files you want to commit. For more information about committing changes to a Git repo, see the EGit/User Guide.

To trigger a build manually, right click on the application and click Deploy.  

For details on working with App Factory applications, see the App Factory documentation.