You can modify the behavior of the Liberty profile by editing the configuration. For example, you can configure which HTTP ports to use, what features are enabled, and logging and tracing settings.
For a description of the underlying process of configuring a server, and detailed information about specific aspects of server configuration, see Administering the Liberty profile manually.
The server configuration editor consists of two views: the Source view and the Design view. The Design view is a structured view of the file whereas the Source view is a text view. But both of them are views of the same server configuration file. The Design view has many features that help with the construction of some of the more complex elements in the server configuration such as data sources.
The following steps are demonstrated in the Design view.
You can use the key combinations from Table 1 in both the Source view and the Design view.
Key combination | Function |
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Ctrl+Space | Content assistance. It displays variables that have the correct type for the current field (int, string, etc.) or ids of the correct type for a reference field. |
F3 | Hyperlink to variable references and id references. |