Web tools features

Rational Developer brings all aspects of Web application development into a common interface. All of your 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 catalog 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

 

Related concepts

Dynamic Web projects and applications
Static Web projects
JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology
Tools for Web development
Struts-based Web applications
Web projects
Web development tools
Web page design
Web technologies
Web Tools tutorial
Web archive (WAR) files
Workbench integration with Web editors

 

Related tasks

Creating a dynamic Web project
Creating a static Web project
Creating JavaServer Pages (JSP) files
Creating Struts resources
Creating servlets
Exporting Web Archive (WAR) files
Using the palette
Adding Web library projects