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 Java EE-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
- JSP and HTML file creation, validation, editing, and debugging
- 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)
)
- Cascading style sheet (CSS) editing support
- HTTP/FTP import
- FTP export (simple resource copy) to a server
- WAR file import, export, and validation
- Servlet creation, which employs the Servlet Wizard to create new servlets.