Project Explorer view

The Project Explorer view shows a custom view of a portlet project, consisting of the following top-level objects beneath the project node:

Web Diagram
This node corresponds to the diagram that helps you visualize the application flow for this portlet project. Double-click this node to open the Web Diagram Editor.
[Web] Deployment Descriptor
This file corresponds to the WebContent/WEB-INF/web.xml file. You can double-click this to open the file in the deployment descriptor editor.
Portlet Deployment Descriptor
This file corresponds to the WebContent/WEB-INF/portlet.xml file. You can double-click this to open the file in the portlet deployment descriptor editor. This node also displays portlets within the project. You can drag these nodes onto the Portal Configuration editor to add portlets to a page.
JavaSource
This node displays Java™ resources within the project.
WebContent
This folder contains items to be published to the server.
/
The root directory of the portlet file structure.
/META-INF
Location for the manifest for the WAR file, manifest.mf. The manifest is in the standard JAR file format, as defined by the Java 1.3 specification. The contents of the /META-INF directory are not served to clients.
/projectName /jsp/html
Location for JSP files. This is a suggested path name. Your JSP files can be packaged in any location outside of the /WEB-INF directory.
/WEB-INF
Location for all protected resources. The /WEB-INF directory stores the portlet deployment descriptor and all of the runtime executable JAR files and classes that the packaged portlet requires.
/WEB-INF/classes
Location for portlet class files. Individual class file should be stored in a directory structure within /WEB-INF/classes that reflects the class package. For example, the class HelloWorld.class, in package com.ibm.wps.samples.HelloWorld, would be stored in /WEB-INF/classes/com/ibm/wps/samples/HelloWorld.class.
/WEB-INF/lib
Location for storing portlet JAR files.
Related concepts
Creating portlets and portlet projects
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