### Starting WebLogic Workshop

The WebLogic Platform Tour demonstrates many of the features of BEA WebLogic Workshop Platform Edition—an integrated development environment for building WebLogic Platform applications. WebLogic Workshop's intuitive user interface lets you design your application visually, simplifying the development of Web, portal, and business process applications, web services, and more!

As you step through the WebLogic Platform Tour, you are prompted to open within WebLogic Workshop the applications and files that are related to the discussion to learn how they were developed.

Start WebLogic Workshop using the steps defined in the following table:

Start WebLogic Workshop

To start WebLogic Workshop on... | Perform the following steps...
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Microsoft Windows | From the Start menu, choose Start —> Programs —> BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 —> WebLogic Workshop.
UNIX | Log in to the target UNIX system. Go to the workshop directory of the WebLogic Platform installation. For example: cd bea/weblogic81/workshop Enter the following command: sh Workshop.sh

The applications you develop in WebLogic Workshop are deployed to a running instance of WebLogic Server. Before you can compile, run, or debug an application, WebLogic Server must be running. The status of the server is reported by the changing colors of an icon at the bottom of the window:

When an instance of WebLogic Server is started, the Server icon is shown in green.

An instance of WebLogic Server was invoked, in the end2end domain, when you started the WebLogic Platform Tour. You can start and stop WebLogic Server from within WebLogic Workshop by choosing one of the following commands, respectively:

- Tools —> WebLogic Server —> Start WebLogic Server
- Tools —> WebLogic Server —> Stop WebLogic Server

To learn more about the features of WebLogic Workshop, see the WebLogic Workshop Help, as follows:

- In WebLogic Workshop, choose Help —> Help Topics.
- Navigate to e-docs at: http://e-docs.bea.com/workshop/docs81/index.html

To conserve screen real estate, temporarily minimize the WebLogic Workshop window.