WebSphere Studio Application Developer part 9 provides integrated development tools for all e-business development roles, including Web developers, Java developers, business analysts, architects, and enterprise programmers. The customizable, targeted, role-based approach of WebSphere Studio Application Developer will be characteristic of all new products built on the WebSphere Studio Workbench. It is well integrated with WebSphere Application Server and provides built-in server test environments that can be used for testing and profiling Web applications | Tips The name of the perspective is shown in the window title area. The vertical toolbar at the left side of the Workbench called the shortcut bar provides icons that you can use to quickly switch between the perspectives that you have opened. To close a perspective right-click that perspective s button on the shortcut bar and select Close. After working with Application Developer for some time you have opened several perspectives. You might have the impression that Application Developer is working slower. It is good practice to close perspectives because they can consume a lot of memory hence they slow down the overall performance. Specifying the default perspective The J2EE perspective is Application Developer s default perspective. You can also change the default perspective from the preferences dialog From the main menu bar select Window Preferences - Workbench - Preferences. Select the perspective that you want to define as the default and click Make Default. Click OK. Organizing and customizing perspectives Application Developer provides the following features to organizing perspectives Open perspectives Customize perspectives Reset perspectives Save perspectives Close perspectives These actions can be found in the Window menu. To customize a perspective click Window - Customize Perspective. The Customize Perspective dialog opens Figure 3-6 . 54 WebSphere Studio Application Developer Version 5 Programming Guide Figure 3-6 Customize perspective In the dialog you can use the check boxes to select which elements you want to see on drop-down menus of the selected perspective. Items you do not select are still accessible by clicking the Other menu option. These options can be customizes The New menu The Window - Open Perspective menu The Window - Show View menu Action sets icons that show up on the toolbar You can also customize a perspective by adding closing moving and resizing views. To add a new view to the perspective simply click Window - Show View and .
