TA80 CONF010 FundIntro

Introduction to Guidewire
Configuration
3 October 2013
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Lesson objectives
• By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
- Describe the product architecture for Guidewire products
- Describe the primary components used to configure Guidewire
products
- Describe the relationship between the Guidewire platform and the
Guidewire applications
- Explain the basic functionality of TrainingApp
- Start a development instance of a Guidewire application
- Describe the purpose of Guidewire Studio
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Lesson outline
• Guidewire product architecture
• Guidewire configuration technology
• The Guidewire platform
• TrainingApp
• Starting Guidewire applications
• Guidewire Studio
Guidewire InsuranceSuite
• Guidewire InsuranceSuite is a set of three core products
that meet the core needs of property and casualty
insurance carriers
bill policy holders for
policies, and pay
create, commissions for
modify, policies to producers
renew, and
cancel
policies
process claims to
provide payments
to claimants when
covered losses
occur
• All Guidewire products are part of a three-tier architecture

Guidewire 8.0 platform
• The Guidewire 8.0 platform includes some significant
improvements including:
- Robust UI framework
- Studio functionality moved to full-featured, industry-standard IDE
(IntelliJ)
The application tier
App. Server Machine
J2EE Application Server
 The application tier contains the functional process logic

 Guidewire supports the following application servers:
 WebSphere  Apache Tomcat
 WebLogic  JBoss EAP
 Jetty (for development only)
The data tier
DB Machine App. Server Machine
Application
Database
 The data tier contains the business and operational database

 Guidewire supports the following RDBMs:
 Oracle Enterprise
 Microsoft SQL Server
 H2 for development only
The presentation tier
DB Machine App. Server Machine User Machines
Application
Database
 The presentation tier contains the user interface

 The Guidewire user interface is supported in these web
browsers:
 Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0, or 9.0
External systems
Application
Database
Policy Authen- Document

Admin. tication Storage
Address Check
Book Printing
Gosu
Application
Database
Policy Authen- Document

Admin. tication Storage
Address Check
Book Printing
Lesson outline
• TrainingApp
Guidewire configuration technology
database application server user interface
integration
 Guidewire has four core areas of configuration technology

 There is one area of technology for each tier of the architecture
 There is a fourth area of technology for the development of
integration points to external systems
Data tier is configured via data model
entities
data model entity

ABContact
Name
PublicID
CreateTime
…
row in ab_abcontact
db Coverage
table
Application tier is configured via Gosu
data model entity internal Gosu class

ABContact ABContact
Fields
Name
Name
PublicID
PublicID
CreateTime
CreateTime
…
...
row in ab_abcontact anAB

db Coverage Contact
table instance of
Gosu class14
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Presentation tier is configured via PCFs
page configuration file
ABContact ABContact
Fields
Name
Name
PublicID
PublicID
CreateTime
CreateTime
…
...
UI form with data
row in ab_abcontact anAB

db Coverage Contact
table instance of
Gosu class15
Data flow from database to user interface

page configuration
data model entity internal Gosu class file
ABContact ABContact
Fields
Name
Name
PublicID
PublicID
CreateTime
CreateTime
…
...
UI form with data

read display
row in ab_abcontact from db anAB in UI
db Coverage Contact
table instance of
Gosu class16
Data flow from user interface to database

page configuration file
ABContact ABContact
Fields
Name
Name
PublicID
PublicID
CreateTime
CreateTime
…
...
UI form with data

read display
row in ab_abcontact from db anAB in UI
db Coverage Contact
table update modify
to instance
db of
in UI
Gosu class17
Integration is done via integration
mechanisms
data model entity internal Gosu class page configuration file
ABContact ABContact
Fields
Name
Name
PublicID
PublicID
CreateTime
CreateTime
…
...
ab_abcontact anAB
Coverage Contact
integration
predefined plugins messaging
web services startable plugin
Lesson outline
• TrainingApp
The Guidewire platform
ClaimCenter PolicyCenter BillingCenter

Data User Data User Data User
Model Inter. Model Inter. Model Inter.
App. Int. App. Int. App. Int.

Logic Mech. Logic Mech. Logic Mech.
Guidewire Platform,
with a common technology for configuring...
Data User Application Integration

Model Interface Logic Mechanisms
Application-specific functionality
Finan- Group Product Job- Billing Payment
cials Access Model flow Plan Plan
Claim Fraud Role Policy Charge Delinq.
Maturity Detection Assign. Validation Pattern Workflow
Data User Data User Data User

Guidewire Platform,

Configuration courses
Finan- Claim Product Job- Billing Payment
cials Validation Model flow Plan Plan
Claim AB Role Policy Charge Delinq.
Maturity Integration Assign. Validation Pattern Workflow
Application
Data User Data User Data User Configuration
Guidewire Platform,
with a common technology for configuring... "Fundamental"
Configuration
Lesson outline
• TrainingApp
TrainingApp
TrainingApp • TrainingApp is a "platform" application

Data User developed exclusively for training
Model Inter.
• Simplifies learning of fundamentals:
App. Int. - Simple examples of each "fundamental"
Logic Mech. configuration feature
- Smaller number of entities and screens
- Excludes complex functionality designed for
policy, billing, and claims processing
Guidewire Platform,

TrainingApp as a "business solution"
• TrainingApp is designed to look like a mock contact

management application
• It is intended to store information about contacts for insurance
carriers
TrainingApp data model
FinanceManager
ABContact AllAddresses
Address
History History
AssignedUser
Entry
FinancialSummary
FlagEntries Flag
Entry
ContactNotes Contact
Note
User
BankAccounts Bank
Account
Financial ServiceEvaluations Service
Summary Evaluation
ABContact is subtyped
ABContact
primary
subtypes ABPerson ABCompany ABPlace
ABAdjud- ABPerson ABPolicy ABCompany ABPolicy ABLegal

icator Vendor Person Vendor Company Venue
AB AB AB ABMedical
Attorney Doctor LawFirm CareOrg
ABAuto ABAuto
TowingAgcy RepairShop
TrainingApp user interface
• Examples of all
fundamental UI
configurations
• List of where examples
can be found
TrainingApp application logic
• TrainingApp has
examples of how
Gosu can be used
to express
application logic,
including:
- Business rules
- PCF methods
- Enhancements
- Static methods in
Gosu classes
- Script parameters
- Widget attributes
Lesson outline
• TrainingApp
Parallel structure of Guidewire
applications
• All Guidewire applications have a similar directory
structure and are started using the same basic tasks
Files used to start application
• build.xml defines
administration tasks:
- Starting application
- Building web application
archive (WAR) files
- Generating data and
security dictionaries
• "gw" batch file used to
launch tasks defined in
build.xml
- Located in <install>\bin
Commonly performed tasks
Start
Regenerate Stop
Application
Dictionaries Application
in Dev Mode
gwta gwta gwta
TrainingApp dev-start regen-dictionary dev-stop
gwbc gwbc gwbc

BillingCenter dev-start regen-dictionary dev-stop
gwcc gwcc gwcc

ClaimCenter dev-start regen-dictionary dev-stop
ContactManager gwab gwab gwab

(AddressBook) dev-start regen-dictionary dev-stop
gwpc gwpc gwpc

PolicyCenter dev-start regen-dictionary dev-stop
Applications can be run in one of two modes
Behavior Development Production
mode mode
Available in
QuickStart Yes No
instance?
Contents of "DEV mode" + build Application name
browser number + application +
title bar name + user name user name
Access to No Restricted
internal tools restrictions by permissions
Running dev
commands from Enabled Disabled
QuickJump box
Database
exceptions Error level Warning level
logged at...
Starting Guidewire in development mode
• All Guidewire applications display " **** ready **** "

message when started
- TrainingApp "ready" message references ContactManager
Accessing application logon page
• URL syntax:
http://hostName:port/appCode
App App
Application Port
Code Name
TrainingApp 8880 AB ContactManager
BillingCenter 8580 BC BillingCenter
ClaimCenter 8080 CC ClaimCenter
ContactManager 8280 AB ContactManager
PolicyCenter 8180 PC PolicyCenter
• Example:
Logging on to the Guidewire applications
• "su" (super user) account
- Only account in default installation
- Has all permissions, and special capabilities above what can be
granted through permissions
• "aapplegate" account
- Not in default installation, but in sample data for every application
- Represents basic end user with permissions typical to contact
manager, adjuster, underwriter, or billing manager
Stopping Guidewire applications
• gwXX dev-stop is a clean shutdown process that safely

releases application resources (such as ports)
• If application is running in development mode:
- Terminate the batch job (CTRL + C, y), OR
- Execute gwXX dev-stop
• If application is running in production mode:

- Always stop app by executing gwXX dev-stop
Lesson outline
• TrainingApp
About Guidewire Studio
• Integrated Developer Environment (IDE)
- Gosu, XML, JAVA *
- Refactoring
- Plugin extensibility
- Dynamic type support
- Make, run and debug
- Guidewire editors
• IntelliJ IDEA 12.1.x community edition

- No download needed; bundled with application
• Physical file based project representation

- Represents complete software solution
- Support for version control systems, e.g. Git, GitHub, Subversion
* Within the Guidewire application project scope, limitations apply for Java
development
Starting Studio
• To open the
project, run
- studio.bat
- gwXX studio
from the bin
• Indexing
influences
startup times
- First time
longest
- Subsequent
starts faster
• Possible to work
while indexing!
Exiting Studio
• Do NOT close the project

• File  Exit
- To properly exit studio,
- Or, in the Bin command
window, enter the exit
command
Anatomy of Guidewire Studio
Main menu and toolbar
Navigation bar
Tool Window Editor

Tool Buttons
Tool Buttons
Tool Window Tool Window
Tool Buttons
Status Bar
Main menu and Toolbar
Main menu
Main toolbar
• Main menu commands • Main toolbar buttons
- Open, edit and find files - Open, save, and
- View tool windows synchronize files
- Navigate class, file, symbol - Undo and redo
- Analyze dependencies - Cut, copy and paste
- Refactor and analyze code - Find and replace
- Make and rebuild - Make project
- Run and debug - Edit configurations,
- Gosu Scratchpad
settings, and structure
- Run and debug
- Version control system
- Refresh PCF
- Gosu Scratchpad
Lesson objectives review
You should now be able to:
- Describe the product architecture for Guidewire products
- Describe the primary components used to configure Guidewire
products
- Describe the relationship between the Guidewire platform and the
Guidewire applications
- Explain the basic functionality of TrainingApp
- Start a development instance of a Guidewire application
- Describe the purpose of Guidewire Studio
Review questions
1. What are the three tiers in the Guidewire application

architecture?
2. What are the four fundamental areas of Guidewire
configuration technology?
3. In which fundamental area of configuration are the
following used?
a) Page configuration files (PCFs)?
b) Web services, messaging, and plugins?
c) Gosu?
d) Data model entities?
4. How do you start a Guidewire application?
5. How do you stop a Guidewire application?
Notices
Copyright © 2001-2013 Guidewire Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
Guidewire, Guidewire Software, Guidewire ClaimCenter, Guidewire PolicyCenter,

Guidewire BillingCenter, Guidewire Reinsurance Management, Guidewire
ContactManager, Guidewire Vendor Data Management, Guidewire Client Data
Management, Guidewire Rating Management, Guidewire InsuranceSuite, Guidewire
ContactCenter, Guidewire Studio, Guidewire Product Designer, Guidewire Live, Guidewire
ExampleCenter, Gosu, Deliver Insurance Your Way, and the Guidewire logo are
trademarks, service marks, or registered trademarks of Guidewire Software, Inc. in the
United States and/or other countries. Guidewire products are protected by one or more
United States patents.
This material is Guidewire proprietary and confidential. The contents of this material,
including product architecture details and APIs, are considered confidential and are fully
protected by customer licensing confidentiality agreements and signed Non-Disclosure
Agreements (NDAs).
This file and the contents herein are the property of Guidewire Software, Inc. Use of this
course material is restricted to students officially registered in this specific Guidewire-
instructed course, or for other use expressly authorized by Guidewire. Replication or
distribution of this course material in electronic, paper, or other format is prohibited without
express permission from Guidewire.

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Introduction to Guidewire

© Guidewire Software, Inc. 2001-2013. All rights reserved.

• Guidewire product architecture

• Guidewire configuration technology

• The Guidewire platform

• Starting Guidewire applications

• All Guidewire products are part of a three-tier architecture

App. Server Machine

J2EE Application Server

 The application tier contains the functional process logic

DB Machine App. Server Machine

J2EE Application Server

 The data tier contains the business and operational database

DB Machine App. Server Machine User Machines

J2EE Application Server

 The presentation tier contains the user interface

DB Machine App. Server Machine User Machines

J2EE Application Server

Policy Authen- Document

DB Machine App. Server Machine User Machines

J2EE Application Server

Policy Authen- Document

• Guidewire product architecture

• Guidewire configuration technology

• The Guidewire platform

• Starting Guidewire applications

database application server user interface

 Guidewire has four core areas of configuration technology

data model entity

database application server user interface

data model entity internal Gosu class

row in ab_abcontact anAB

UI form with data

row in ab_abcontact anAB

database application server user interface

UI form with data

database application server user interface

UI form with data

• Guidewire product architecture

• Guidewire configuration technology

• The Guidewire platform

• Starting Guidewire applications

ClaimCenter PolicyCenter BillingCenter

App. Int. App. Int. App. Int.

Data User Application Integration

Data User Data User Data User

Data User Application Integration

• Guidewire product architecture

• Guidewire configuration technology

• The Guidewire platform

• Starting Guidewire applications

TrainingApp • TrainingApp is a "platform" application

Data User Application Integration

• TrainingApp is designed to look like a mock contact

ABAdjud- ABPerson ABPolicy ABCompany ABPolicy ABLegal

• Guidewire product architecture

• Guidewire configuration technology

• The Guidewire platform

• Starting Guidewire applications

gwbc gwbc gwbc

gwcc gwcc gwcc

ContactManager gwab gwab gwab

gwpc gwpc gwpc

• All Guidewire applications display " ready "