Application development phases

This section provides a list of tasks and a general discussion of how those tasks might be sequenced in the application development process. The sample application demonstrates how completion of these tasks results in a working application. Refer to the Solution architecture document for details of the development methodology.

Note that the Branch Transformation provides a deployable EAR file containing all the code and resources you need to run the Java(TM) Client Sample Application. Phases 1 through 4 describe how the Java Client Sample Application was created but you do not have to do any of the actions described in the phases to make the sample run.

The following is a typical workflow for developing an application:

Phase 1: Analysis and design

Phase 2: Customizing the toolkit

Phase 3: Coding the runtime application

Phase 4: Generating the runtime files