1. Presented by IBM developer Works ibm.com/developerworks/ 2006 January – April © 2006 IBM Corporation. Making the most of The Eclipse Web Tools Platform

2. 6-2 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works The Web Tools Project (WTP)  End user tools and APIs for Web and J2EE application development  WTP is two subprojects and one incubation project:  Web Standard Tools (WST)  J2EE Standard Tools (JST)  Java Server Faces (JSF) tools  Supports open standards from OASIS, the W3C, JCP, WS-I.org and others  Includes tools for open source and commercial products (Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere)  eclipse.org/webtools

3. 6-3 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Project history  Major milestones  Eclipse foundation creation review June 2004  Full-time development since October 2004  BEA joined the project leadership in February 2005  Data tools moved to a separate project (DTP) in March 2005  WTP 0.7 released July 29, 2005  WTP 1.0 released December 23, 2005  WTP 1.5 ~ July 2006

4. 6-4 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Project themes  API declaration where appropriate  Simple to use – wizards, editing support  Large-scale development  User experience – dynamic help, graphical WSDL editor  Responsive UI  Seamless editing of resources  JDT-like features applied to other languages (HTML, JSP, XML … )  Flexible project layout  Vendor ecosystem support

5. 6-5 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Web Standard Tools (WST)  Basic server tools  Support for server types and server connectivity (Web, DB)  Configure, publish, start/stop, debug  Structured Source Editor framework  Web Language Tools  HTML source editor  CSS source editor  JavaScript source editor

6. 6-6 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Web Standard Tools (WST)  XML language tools  XML source editor  XSD source editor  DTD source editor  Facets – technique and UI for modeling server features  Web services tools  WSDL editor  Web service explorer  Web service wizard  WS-I test tools – validate WSDL and SOAP envelopes for WS-I compliance

7. 6-7 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Server tools  Preferences pages to configure various server runtimes  Supported runtimes:  IBM WebSphere  Apache Tomcat  JBoss  JOnAS  BEA WebLogic  Highly extensible server frameworks  Supports generic server adapters and custom server adapters

8. 6-8 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Server tools

9. 6-9 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Structured source editors  Editors for:  XML  DTDs  HTML  CSS  JavaScript  JSPs  Includes the usual Eclipse editor features:  Syntax highlighting  Quick fix  Delimeter matching  Content assist

10. 6-10 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works XML tools  XML Catalog support – A repository for DTDs, XSDs, or any XML resource (WSDL, XSL, etc.)  Based on the OASIS XML catalog standard

11. 6-11 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Web service tools  Graphical WSDL/XSD editor  Build WSDL and XSD files without knowing the XML syntax underneath  Visualize Web services – their interfaces, data structures, etc.

12. 6-12 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Web service tools  Validation tools for XML schema, WSDL files, WS-I compliance

13. 6-13 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Web service tools  Wizards to create Web services  Top-down – Start with a WSDL interface, go to code  Bottom-up – Start with code, generate the WSDL interface  Supports Apache Axis 1.2

14. 6-14 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Relational database tools  Wizard to create live connections to database servers over JDBC  Supported servers:  Apache Derby / Cloudscape  DB2  Informix  MySQL  SQL Server  Oracle  Sybase  You can add your own…

15. 6-15 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Relational database tools  Database Explorer – View database schemas, tables, views, stored procedures and user-defined functions  Supports working in disconnected mode

16. 6-16 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works J2EE standard tools (JST)  Java EE core tools  Natures and builders  Java EE views and navigators  Java EE models  Java EE projects and modules  Flexible directory layout  Support for WAR files, EJBs, JARs, EAR files, etc.  Models and source editors for deployment descriptors  Java EE navigator view  Ability to target different servers

17. 6-17 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works J2EE standard tools  Servlet tools  JSP tools  JSP editor, HTML code assist, editors for Java, JavaScript, taglibs  JSR-45 compliant debugging  Java EE server tools – extend WST  Supports deploy, debug, project restart on Java EE runtimes  Generic server adapter  Custom (Java) server adapter for total control  JavaDoc annotation support  Extensible facility to define tagsets  Code assist in Java editors and builders for code generation

18. 6-18 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works J2EE standard tools  Wizard to create J2EE modules  Select a target server and J2EE version

19. 6-19 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works XDoclet support

20. 6-20 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Standards support  WST:  HTML 4.0.1  XHTML 1.0 / 1.1  XML Catalogs 1.0  CSS 2.0  ECMAScript 262  SQL99/SQL2003  XML 1.0  XML Schema 1.0  WSDL 1.1  SOAP 1.1  WS-I basic profile 1.1, attachment profile 1.0

21. 6-21 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works Standards support  JST – JCP standards  J2EE 1.2, 1.3, 1.4  Servlets  JSP  EJB  JAX-RPC  JSR 109  JSR 045  JSR 921  JDBC 2.1

22. 6-22 Making the most of © 2006 IBM Corporation. Presented by IBM developer Works The future  WTP V1.5 ~ July 2006  J2EE 5.0 support  JSF support  Based on Eclipse 3.2  Stay tuned to eclipse.org/webtools for announcments, pre-release versions

23. Presented by IBM developer Works ibm.com/developerworks/ 2006 January – April © 2006 IBM Corporation. Making the most of Demo time! Deploying a Java class as a Web service