The Web development tools enable you to create Web applications that range
from simple static sites to dynamic Web applications that use the latest Web
technologies.
The Web perspective contains a selection of views and editors that are
customized to be most useful to a Web developer. These views include reusable
drag and drop components, link structures, access to page data, your project
resources, code snippets, image galleries, and more.
The editors range from standard source editors with
content assist features to more full featured
editors, such as the following:
- Page Designer enables you to create sophisticated
HTML- and JSP-based Web pages - the basis for most Web applications. To extend
these pages, you can also include form elements, Java™ applets, embedded scripts, dynamic
controls, and JavaServer
Pages (JSP) tags.
- Web Site Designer enables you to determine
the interrelationships between the pages in your site and to create a cohesive
design that can be applied to the entire site.
- Cascading Style Sheet Designer enables you
to edit styles with the help of syntax highlighting, content assist, and a
preview function.
- Web Diagram Editor enables you to visualize
and change the flow of a Web application, such as a Faces or a Struts based
application.
- Web
Deployment Descriptor Editor helps you define any of the deployment
information that can exist in the Web application deployment descriptor included
in a WAR file. Pages in this graphical editor provide controls to set numerous
Web application parameters associated with servlets, filters, life-cycle listeners,
mime mappings, parameters, references, security, and other general deployment
settings. The Web deployment descriptor editor also enables you to configure WebSphere® Application
Server-specific bindings and extensions.