Exercise 5.3: Testing the changed application

Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 5.2: Applying Web Settings.

Let's see the new user interface in your application.

To test the changed application:

  1. Right-click index.jsp in the WebFacing Projects view.
  2. Click Run > Run on Server on the pop-up menu.
  3. Go to the browser pane and click the Launch link.

    You will see the first screen of your application. Nothing has changed there.

  4. Click the Prompt push button, or press command key F4.
    Customer selection window with links

    The customer selection window appears and the customer fields are shown as links. Also notice the changed text and the non-visible option column.

    Note:
    If the customer selection window is still showing the old option selections, most likely the browser has cached the page and you need to close the browser window, and restart the application. This will open a new instance of the browser without cached content.
  5. Select a customer from the list by clicking on the link.
  6. Go through the same steps as in Module 1. Reviewing the 5250 order entry application to test the changed application.

You have launched a reconverted WebFacing application, prompted for a customer and verified the changes in the customer selection window.

Module recap

You have completed Module 5. Changing the user interface. You have learned how to:

When you tested the changed application, you found that you didn't like the way the WebFacing Tool mapped some of the display attributes to colors and text styles available in the browser. You wanted to change the default WebFacing style rules that determine how certain 5250 parts are displayed in a browser to give the Web user interface a better look. Now you will make these changes. Continue to Module 6. Changing the style of the Web user interface.