UX Studio Overview

UX Studio

UX Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in the Demandware platform.

UX Studio is a plugin built on the Eclipse open-source development platform (www.eclipse.org).

 

Creating a Workspace

A workspace is an Eclipse-specific local directory that contains Eclipse projects. Normally Eclipse projects are connected to Java source directories (packages). In Demandware Studio projects are different: they either define a connection to a Demandware instance or they point to a Demandware cartridge. They are neverused to compile Java projects since Java code is not used in Demandware applicationprogramming. Each workspace should have only 1 Demandware server connection. For example, if you are a developer working on numerous client projects, you will want to create a separate workspace for each client. Each client workspace will then have only 1 specific server connection.

 

Creating a Server Connection

In order to upload your code to a Demandware server, you will need to create a server connection in UX Studio. A server connection allows you to push your code to the server instance but you will not be able to pull the code onto your personal computer from the Demandware server. The connection is a 1-way push only.

Under: File –> New -> Demandware Server Connection.

 

Demandware Help

Click : Help ->Help Contents.Expand the Demandware API link.

 

Importing Projects (Cartridges)

A project in UX Studio is a cartridge. A cartridge is a folder with specific sub-folders and files inside of it.

 

Demandware Views

The Demandware UX Studio plug-in gives you access to specific Demandware programming files. Those files are sorted and given their own custom views in the application.

The primary files as you see listed above, are Cartridges, Pipelines, Pipelets, Templates, and Scripts.The Navigation tab will allow you to view all files in your workspace in a tree view structure. It also allows common tasks like copy/paste, file comparisons, etc.

 

Searching for Text in Files

Being able to quickly find specific code within a number of files is very important. To do this you will use the Search tool in UX Studio.

How to Search for text in files

Click: Search -> Search