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4.2. Using the JHeadstart Enable Project Wizard
4.2.1. Enabling JHeadstart on a new project
JDeveloper offers a host of technologies that you might or might not use in a project. The
use of some of these technologies might require the presence of some files or settings in
your project. To facilitate the development process, JDeveloper will usually create these
files and/or settings for you the first time you use such a technology in your project,
often without notice. For instance, the first time you create an ADF Faces page in a
project, JDeveloper will automatically add a number of settings to the web.xml file, and
add a faces-config.xml file to your project
In a similar fashion, the use of JHeadstart also requires such files and settings in your
project. We have chosen to make the use of JHeadstart on a project a deliberate choice.
Before allowing the use of any JHeadstart Addins on a project, you must first ‘enable’
JHeadstart on it. Typically, this only needs to occur on the ‘ViewController’ project: the
project that will hold the JSF Navigation files and the JSF JSP pages. This action will also
trigger the creation of those files and settings needed for a JHeadstart application.
Enabling JHeadstart on a project is a simple operation that you can perform by right
clicking on the project, and selecting the option ‘Enable JHeadstart on this Project’.
The JHeadstart Enable Project Wizard that is invoked by this menu option does not ask
for any input. All you need to do is click ‘Next’ and ‘Finish’. It will then create and add a
number of files to your project, and make some required project settings. It will report
what it has done in the following dialogue:
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