Oracle Designer Tutorial |
This chapter introduces the Oracle Designer tools and utilities and contains the following sections:
Oracle Designer is a software tool for analyzing business requirements and for designing and generating client/server systems that meet those requirements. Oracle Designer incorporates support for business process modeling, systems analysis, software design and system generation.
Oracle Designer provides a multi-user repository and is closely integrated with Oracle Developer, Oracle's client/server development toolset. In this way, Oracle Designer allows organizations to design and rapidly deliver scalable, client/server systems that can adapt to changing business needs.
The Oracle Designer tools are grouped into areas that reflect the primary needs of its different types of user:
In the development environment, Oracle Designer can be installed flexibly. For example, you could install the entire Oracle Designer suite on a client PC in a single operation, or you could install the components of Oracle Designer separately. Each of the generators can be installed separately.
For this tutorial, you must install Oracle Designer as described in Appendix A.
For full details about the installation process, see the Oracle Designer Installation Guide.
You can start Oracle Designer tools and utilities in one of two ways:
During this tutorial you will be told to start most of the Oracle Designer tools from the Oracle Designer window.
When you are following the tutorial, select the Oracle Designer for Tutorial User program in the Oracle Designer Tutorial folder. Do not use the program in the Oracle Designer folder. Using the Oracle Designer for Tutorial User program will ensure that:
Note: The working directory specified for the Oracle Designer for Tutorial User program must be writeable.
Depending on how Oracle Designer has been installed on your system, the Connect dialog box might appear when you start Oracle Designer.
If this dialog box appears, enter the username and password for the user account you will be using during the tutorial. In the Connect String field, enter the name of the database you will be using.
Below is an example of a completed Connect dialog box.
In this example, a user with the username ‘analyst’ and a password of ‘teachme1’ is attempting to connect to a database called ‘olympic’.
If you are not sure what to enter in the Connect dialog box, ask your system administrator.
The Workarea dialog box appears, enabling you to select the workarea you will be using to follow the tutorial.
Unless your system administrator has told you to use a different workarea, select TUTORIAL and click on OK.
The workarea you specify is used when you start any of the Oracle Designer tools.
When you have logged on to a database and selected a workarea, the Oracle Designer window appears.
To start an Oracle Designer tool from the Oracle Designer window, you click once on the button for that tool.
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