J2EE Development Perspective
The J2EE Development perspective (or J2EE perspective) grants developers standardized access to all the development objects in J2EE projects.
The main component of the perspective is the J2EE Explorer (or the J2EE DC Explorer in component projects). The Explorer delivers a logical view of the local project structure and offers a starting point for the relevant activities – such as creating or editing development objects.
If you double-click an object in the J2EE Explorer, the appropriate editor is launched automatically. The HTML Editor provides a user-friendly environment for creating and editing source code. You can always create new development objects in a project using a wizard.
All the deployment descriptors are implemented as multi-page editors and provide support when you define XML sources.
Finally, to deploy your application on the J2EE Engine, you need only choose this function from the context menu in the J2EE Explorer (or J2EE DC Explorer). That is, you launch the deployment process directly from the J2EE perspective.
The J2EE perspective is displayed automatically after you have created a J2EE project. In other cases, you can start the perspective – as usual – through the menu path. For this purpose, choose Window → Open Perspective and then select J2EE Development.
The following graphic shows part of the J2EE perspective with the J2EE Explorer (left), the Diagram View of a Deployment Descriptor (right), and the Source tab of the JSP Editor (right, below). The Diagram View not only enables you to display the components of a project, but it also functions as a graphic editor tool.
Along with syntax highlighting, a Pretty Printer, and code completion, the JSP Editor includes an Internet Explorer preview.
Further documentation: