WebSphere Studio Application Developer part 13 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 | Creating and working with a Java project Before we demonstrate Application Developer s programming assists we show how to create and work with a Java project. You can use Application Developer to develop the Java packages for your application specific business logic and for common code that will be used by several projects. These packages can be exported as JAR files and included in the build path for other types of projects or in the application path of the application servers. Existing Java code can also be imported and integrated into new applications. Application Developer 5 also introduces the Visual Editor for Java which allows you to design applications containing a graphical user interface GUI . See Chapter 14 Developing GUI applications on page 469 for a detailed description of the Visual Editor. Application Developer provides features to perform the following development tasks Creating a Java project Creating Java packages Running your programs Exporting code and running outside Application Developer Locating compile errors in your code Debugging your code Creating a Java project Java projects contain the resources needed for Java applications including Java files and class files. Java projects are used to create Java packages. When you create a new Java project the environment is set up for Java development. To create a new Java project select File - New - Project. This displays the New Project dialog Figure 5-1 . 94 WebSphere Studio Application Developer Version 5 Programming Guide Figure 5-1 New Project dialog Select Java and Java Project from this dialog and click Next to start the Java project wizard Figure 5-2 . Figure 5-2 New Java project project name and directory On the first page you name the Java project and specify the directory where the project files should be stored. In this example the project is named ItsoProGuideJava. By default the project files will be stored in a directory created under the Application Developer workspace directory. .
