Chapter Review

This chapter presented a number of best practices to help you create and organize your development environment. The first section covered the necessary hardware and software in a typical development environment and discussed mechanisms for supporting multiple builds and databases in the same environment. Subsequent sections described the proper way to install WebLogic Server in the development environment, configure your working directory structure, establish an Ant-based build process, and choose the proper development tools for your project. The final section discussed unit-testing techniques and frameworks to help increase the quality and maintainability of your application code.

These recommendations should provide a strong starting point in the definition of your development environment and development process. Now all you have to do is build the system. Get to it!