1. IBM Rational University
Mastering Web Application Development with Rational
Application Developer v7
RD794/DEV452v1 August/2007
Lab Setup Guide

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Lab Setup Guide for Classroom Delivery
LSG Requirements
The following tables list the hardware, software, and other materials needed to set up a lab
to conduct a class for course RD794.
Hardware Requirements
Table 1 lists the hardware needed to prepare one student lab set. When preparing for a
class, multiply the items below by the number of lab systems needed for the class.
Table 1: Hardware for one student or instructor lab set
Minimum Minimum Disk
Platform Use Machine Requirements Features
Memory Space
LAN-attached
or loopback
1.0 GHz Pentium III or support (the
Student 1024 MB 10 GB
higher TCP/IP stack
must be
installed)
LAN-attached
or loopback
1.0 GHz Pentium III or support (the
Instructor 1024 MB 10 GB
higher TCP/IP stack
must be
installed)
Software Requirements
Table 2 lists the software needed to prepare the student and instructor lab sets. When
preparing for a class, be sure you have the correct number of licensed copies of any
non-IBM software.
Table 2: Software for Instructor and Student Systems
Operating Application Licensing
Platform Use OS Version Applications
System Version Requirement
Site must
Windows XP Service Pack provide for
Student
Professionala 2 private
offerings
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Table 2: Software for Instructor and Student Systems
Operating Application Licensing
Platform Use OS Version Applications
System Version Requirement
IBM Rational
Application Version 7.0
Developer
WebSphere
Application Version 6.0
Server
Site must
Adobe
Version 5.0 or provide for
Acrobat
later private
Reader
offerings
Site must
WinZip or provide for
8.0 or later
equivalent private
offerings
Instructor Same as student system
a. All testing of these instructions and all testing of the lab exercises were conducted on systems running Win-
dows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. All of the products listed above are supported on Windows NT run-
ning at Service Pack 6a or higher, and on Windows 2000. The world-wide standard for this course is Windows
XP with SP2 applied. If other versions of Windows are required, it is up to the individual geographies to build
appropriate images and to test the labs and verify that they work in these environments. Because of differences
between Windows XP and other Windows versions, some operating system specific instructions in the lab ex-
ercises may need to be modified when running with Windows NT or Windows 2000.
Skills Required to Set Up the Lab
The following specialized skills are required to set up the lab:
• Installer must be familiar with installing products on Windows XP and must be familiar
with the administration and customization of Windows XP.
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LSG Set Up Instructions
Configuration Information
The following sections describe the configurations of the student and lab systems.
Hardware Set Up Instructions
Use the following information in addition to the normal hardware installation procedures to
set up the lab hardware.
__ 1. No special hardware setup is required other than the requirement for network (LAN)
connectivity. If network connectivity is not available, you must still have the loopback
adapter and TCP/IP stack installed, and you must be able to PING localhost.
Internet access is preferred, as instructors may wish to demonstrate concepts with
real-world examples.
Software Setup Instructions
Use the following information in addition to the normal software installation procedures to
set up the lab software.
__ 1. Setting up Windows XP Professional1
__ a. Install Windows XP Professional (if not already installed).
__ b. Make sure that networking support is installed. If the system does not have a
network adapter, the loopback adapter must be installed. If the loopback adapter
is installed, it should be set with an IP address of 192.168.1.1 (or 10.0.0.1, if the
192.168.x.y range is used locally) and a mask of 255.255.255.0.
__ c. If networking support has been installed, it is recommended that students have
access to the Internet. This allows them to access WebSphere and Rational
related Web sites during the course.
__ d. Choose an appropriate local administrator ID and password. This must be made
known to the instructor, who must inform the students (“userid” and “password”
should no longer be used, according to IBM internal regulations).
__ e. Set the paging file size to an initial size of 2048 MB (or twice the memory size,
whatever is bigger); set the maximum size to the same value. (Start up System
from the Control Panel, select the Advanced tab, and click Performance
Options... and then click Change... under the Virtual memory section.) It is
best to install the pagefile on a partition by itself. The partition should be about 50
to 100 MB larger than the pagefile itself. After the paging file has been initialized,
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See comments in the Software Requirements section about the use of other Windows systems. These are not supported environments
for this course, but they are supported environments for the products to be installed. Course support of Windows systems other than
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 is up to the individual geographies that want to run them.
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make sure that the page file on the original system drive is reduced to a size of
about 10 MB (both minimum and maximum). File system for this partition is less
important.
__ 2. Install Windows XP Service Pack 2(SP2).
__ 3. Install critical Microsoft Windows security updates.
__ 4. Log on with the userid and password chosen in step 1d above.
__ 5. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader, Version 5.0 (or higher).
__ 6. Install WinZip, Version 8.0 (or higher).
__ 7. Install the IBM Installation Manager.
__ a. Insert the IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software CD 1
into the CD drive to begin the installation. If autorun has been disabled, run
launchpad.exe from the CD.
__ b. Click the Install IBM Rational Application Developer V7.0 link.
__ c. After a few moments, the IBM Installation Manager appears. Click Next.
__ d. Select the I Accept the terms in the license agreement radio button and
click Next.
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LSG __ e. Accept the default installation location and click Next.
__ f. Click Install on the next page to install IBM Installation Manager.
__ g. After the installation has completed, click Finish to close the IBM Installation
Manager window.
__ 8. The IBM Installation Manager window should open automatically. Install the IBM
Rational Application Developer package using the IBM Installation Manager.
__ a. If the window does not open automatically, click Start Menu Programs IBM
Installation Manager IBM Installation Manager.
__ b. On the Install Packages page, select the IBM Rational Application Developer
check box.
__ c. Click Next.
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__ d. Select the I Accept the terms in the license agreement radio button and
click Next.
__ e. On the first Location page, change the Shared Resources Directory to
C:IBMSDP70Shared.
__ f. Click Next.
__ g. On the second Location page, change the Package Group Installation
Directory to C:IBMSDP70.
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LSG __ h. Click Next.
__ i. On the next page, click Next to accept the defaults. You are not extending an
existing installation of Eclipse.
__ j. On the next Features page, click Next to accept the default language - English.
__ k. On the next Features page accept the defaults. Make sure that IBM WebSphere
application Server, version 6.1 is selected.
__ l. Click Next.
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__ m. On the Summary page, verify the settings and click Install.
__ n. Once the installation is done, click None and click Finish. Do not start IBM
Rational Application at this time.
__ 9. Once Application Developer is installed, the final step is to use the IBM Installation
Manager to install the Activation Kit to license the product.
__ a. Click Start Menu Programs IBM Installation Manager IBM
Installation Manager.
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LSG __ b. In the IBM Installation Manager, Click Manage Licenses.
__ c. On the Manage Licenses page, click Import product Activation Kit. Click
Next.
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__ d. On the Import Activation Kit page, click Browse and navigate to the folder
with the installation files. Locate and choose the RADLic.jar file. Click Next.
__ e. On the Licenses page, select the I Accept the terms in the license
agreement radio button and click Finish.
__ f. Click Finish once again.
__ 10. Close any open installation windows.
__ 11. Unzip file LabFiles70.zip to C:. Make sure you expand all of the files and keep
the directories. Verify that the following subdirectories are created in
C:LabFiles70:
- database (empty)
- setup
- snippets
- solutions
- workspace (empty)
__ 12. For user convenience, create a shortcut to the Rational Application Developer
executable on the Windows desktop. It should be called “Rational Application
Developer” and point to the following location:
"C:IBMSDP70eclipse.exe" -showlocation -setworkspace
Students may drop workspace folders on this icon to open them with Application
Developer. The location of the workspace is displayed in the title bar of the
workbench window.
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LSG Verification and Cleanup Instructions
These instructions are used to verify the proper Services configurations, as well as the
basic operations of the installed products.
__ 1. Verify that IBM Rational Application Developer starts.
__ a. Start the program: Start Programs IBM Software Development Platform
IBM Rational Application Developer IBM Rational Application
Developer.
__ b. The Eclipse splash screen should be displayed, followed by the Application
Developer GUI.
__ c. Close the program.
__ 2. Remove any downloaded installation files and installation folders created during
extraction of zipped installation files.
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