Getting Ready to Start Development

Before you begin work, be familiar with Sybase WorkSpace, including the Eclipse framework, WorkSpace basics, and development components.

Installation: The product features available in your installation of Sybase WorkSpace are based on the licensing options purchased. Review the Sybase® WorkSpace Installation Guide for additional information.

Getting Started: The Getting Started collection of online help provides comprehensive information about basic WorkSpace functionality, planning, and setup:

About Sybase WorkSpace identifies high-level features of each development component.
Basics help you understand basic concepts of using Sybase WorkSpace. Perspectives, views, and editors are key to working quickly and effectively.
Learn to use the online help to locate concept, task, and reference information applicable to your work objectives.
Review Plan information to help you plan for development.
Use Set up topics to learn about setup processes for projects, connection profiles, preferences, and server configuration.
Use Tutorials to start using Sybase WorkSpace by working through end-to-end or component tutorials.
Review Samples to run fully-configured end-to-end or component sample scenarios.
Go to the Quick Start Videos website for access to a variety of demos about how to use Sybase WorkSpace features.

Starting Development Work: When you begin development, use the component collections to review information about:

Service Development
Process Orchestration
Database Development
Data Federation
Web Application Development
Enterprise Modeling - See the Sybase PowerDesigner collection on the online bookshelf.

Review the online help contents. Development work is categorized by component. Some work, such as database development, is flexible and can be categorized in multiple components. For example, you can create objects with database management tooling, and you can create database services with service development tooling.

If you plan to develop service functionality in Java, become familiar with the Java development tooling described in the Java Development User's Guide. Tips for using Java in Sybase WorkSpace are in the topic "Managing Java Projects and Java Builder Settings." You will use the Java tooling if you develop Java services or transformation services that use custom Java transformation code.