Oracle by Example brandingGet Started with a Development Project using Developer Cloud

section 0Before You Begin

This tutorial shows you how to create a project using a template in Oracle Developer Cloud Service. This tutorial takes approximately five minutes to complete.

Background

Oracle Developer Cloud Service is a cloud-based software development Platform as a Service (PaaS) and a hosted environment for your application development infrastructure. It provides an open source standards-based solution to develop, collaborate, and deploy applications within Oracle Cloud.

An Oracle Developer Cloud Service project is a collection of Git repositories, branch merge requests, wikis, issues, deployment configurations, and builds. While creating a project, you can choose a template project to copy its artifacts such as Git repositories, job configurations, and wiki pages to the new project.

What Do You Need?

  • A web browser
    To know about supported web browsers, see Web Browser Requirements.
  • An Oracle Cloud account with an active Oracle Developer Cloud Service subscription
  • Your Oracle Cloud account credentials

section 1Open Oracle Developer Cloud Service Console

You can log on to Oracle Developer Cloud Service from the Oracle Cloud Dashboard page.

  1. In a web browser, go to https://cloud.oracle.com/home, and click Sign In.
  2. From the Cloud Account drop-down menu, select your data center, and click My Services.
  3. Enter your identity domain, and click Go.
  4. Enter your cloud account credentials and click Sign In.
  5. On Dashboard page, in the developerid tile, click Action Menu ActionMenu and select Open Service Console.
    Oracle Cloud Dashboard
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    If Oracle Developer Cloud Service is not listed on the dashboard, click Customize Dashboard.

    Oracle Cloud Dashboard
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    Under Platform, find developerid, select Show, and then close the Customize Dashboard window.
    Customize Dashboard dialog box
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section 2Create a Project

You can create a project from the Oracle Developer Cloud Service Console, also called the Welcome page.

  1. On the Welcome page, click + New Project.
    New Project button on the Welcome page
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  2. On the Project Details page of the New Project wizard, enter the following values, and click Next.
    • Name: EmployeesApp
    • Description: A simple standalone Java SE application using a Developer Cloud Service project template. After the project is created, you can build and later deploy it to Oracle Application Container Cloud Service.
    Project Details page of the New Project wizard
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  3. On the Template page, select ACCS Java SE Sample with Deployment, and then click Next.
    Template page of the New Project wizard
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  4. On the Project Properties page, click Finish.
    Project Properties page of the New Project wizard
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  5. Wait for provisioning to complete.
    Project provisioning page
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    After provisioning completes, the project is ready to use. The Project page opens by default.
    Project page of the open project
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    The Git repository, build job configuration, and Wiki page from the template project are copied to the new project.
  6. In the navigation bar, click Code. The Code page displays the application source files and directories of the Git repository.
    Code page of the open project
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  7. Browse and click the directory name or the file name link to view its contents.
  8. In the navigation bar, click Build. The Build page shows the copied build job.
    Build page of the open project
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  9. Click the job name link to view its details.
  10. In the navigation bar, click Wiki. The Wiki page shows the wiki page copied from the template project.
    Wiki page of the open project
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  11. Click the wiki name link to view its contents. The wiki page has instructions describing how to build the application and deploy it.

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After creating the project, run a build of the pre-configured and copied employees-app-build job. See the Run a Build of a Job in Developer Cloud in the Want to Learn More section..


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