Exercise 2.2: Opening the WebFacing perspective

Before you begin, you must complete Exercise 2.1: Starting the product.

The workbench shows the Remote System Explorer (RSE) perspective by default. This is the perspective that you would use to work with iSeries objects. It allows specifying connections to iSeries servers and provides for the programmer a similar interface to iSeries objects as the Program Development Manager (PDM) does in a green screen environment.

The WebFacing Tool provides it's own perspective since it needs to give its users access to unique views and tools targeted towards the WebFacing task. To create a WebFacing project you first need to open the WebFacing perspective.

To open a WebFacing perspective:
Workbench Menu structure for opening a perspective

  1. Click Window > Open Perspective > WebFacing from the workbench menu.

    The workbench now shows the WebFacing perspective with the WebFacing Projects view open in the left pane of the workbench.
    WebFacing Perspective

    You are ready to start the WebFacing project wizard to create a WebFacing project.

You have accessed unique views and tools targeted towards the WebFacing tasks through the WebFacing perspective and now you are ready to begin Exercise 2.3: Starting the WebFacing Web Project wizard.