Web tools features

This product enables you to work with all aspects of a Web application in a common interface. All content authors, graphic artists, programmers, and WebMasters can work on the same projects. The integrated Web development environment makes it easy to cooperatively create, assemble, publish, deploy and maintain dynamic, interactive Web applications.

The Web development environment provides the following high-level capabilities:

Dynamic Web project creation, using the J2EE-defined hierarchy, or a static version that reduces project overhead when dynamic elements are not required. Static Web projects can later be converted to dynamic Web projects.
Creation and editing of a Web application deployment descriptor (web.xml) file
Site-level Web management and navigation using Web Site Designer
JSP and HTML file creation, validation, editing, and debugging
JavaScript™ editing and validation
Custom JSP tags (tag library) support, based on the Sun Microsystems JSP 1.2 Specification
An extensible view, called the Snippets view, which allows users to categorize and organize reusable programming objects, such as HTML, JavaScript, and JSP markup, along with files and custom tags, that can be embedded in existing files
Dynamic tag help (content assist) , which displays tag usage and attribute information for HTML, JSP, and JavaScript tags based on cursor location in the Source page. (You invoke Content Assist by pressing (Ctrl+Spacebar) )
Quick Edit view that allows you to edit specific pieces of code in context, including add actions and events
Palette view to reuse components, including HTML, JSP, JavaScript, site parts, Faces and Data components, and more
Attributes editing available in its own view
Image editing and animation
Cascading style sheet (CSS) editing support
HTTP/FTP import
FTP export (simple resource copy) to a server
WAR file import, export, and validation (Now includes even more file types).
Link parsing, validation, and management, which includes converting links, flagging broken links, and fixing up links as linked resources are moved or renamed
Servlet creation, which employs the Servlet Wizard to create new servlets and add servlet mappings to the Web deployment descriptor files
Integration with the WebSphere^® test environment
Publishing support for multiple Web server types
Wizards for Listener and Filter classes