EBCC confusion (basic)

I'm a bit confused by an aspect of the EBCC.
When I open go to open an application there is a directory structure. There
are directories that are mirrored in both the EBCC directory and the WLPortal
direcotry.
For example the following directories both exist:
ebcc4.0\applications\portal
wlportal4.0\applications\portal
Initially I thought that you opened the EBCC application, made changes & then
'synchronized' it...which would copy the metadata over to the wlportal version
of it.
However I'm now getting weird (to me) behavior when something is saved in one
particular location and then doesn't seem accessible from another location.
I'm not trying to do anything very complicated...just work on a portlet that
can exist within the StockPortal demo application.
What is the appropriate area to change/create metadata for this portlet within
the EBCC?
Thanks a lot for any basic explanation of the appropriate way to deal with this.
Any pointer to accurate docs would be cool too. I've found that most of the
documentation isn't so clear about defining the appropriate workspace for different
situations.
-James

James,
First, sorry for any confusion. BOTH the WLP server and the EBCC ship with
the example application data. The reason for this is that technically you
could have either one of these products installed depending on your
development role. You should just pick one of these application data
directories and make all your changes to that (probably the EBCC one). When
you run a sync from the EBCC it sends your changes up to a running server
(never onto another file system).
Sincerely,
Daniel Selman
"James" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
I'm a bit confused by an aspect of the EBCC.
When I open go to open an application there is a directory structure.There
are directories that are mirrored in both the EBCC directory and theWLPortal
direcotry.
For example the following directories both exist:
ebcc4.0\applications\portal
wlportal4.0\applications\portal
Initially I thought that you opened the EBCC application, made changes &then
'synchronized' it...which would copy the metadata over to the wlportalversion
of it.
However I'm now getting weird (to me) behavior when something is savedin one
particular location and then doesn't seem accessible from anotherlocation.
>
I'm not trying to do anything very complicated...just work on a portletthat
can exist within the StockPortal demo application.
What is the appropriate area to change/create metadata for this portletwithin
the EBCC?
Thanks a lot for any basic explanation of the appropriate way to dealwith this.
>
Any pointer to accurate docs would be cool too. I've found that most ofthe
documentation isn't so clear about defining the appropriate workspace fordifferent
situations.
-James

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