WebSphere Studio Application Developer part 51 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 | Table 14-1 User interface classes Name Swing class AWT class Description Frame A Frame is a top-level window with a title and a border. Panel Panel is the simplest container class. A panel provides space in which an application can attach any other component including other panels. Applet An applet is a small program that is intended not to be run on its own but rather is embedded inside another application for example a Web browser. Other Any superclass probably inheriting from one of the Swing or AWT classes Choose your own superclass. Clicking Finish creates the new CustomerGUI class and opens the Visual Editor. Figure 14-5 shows the new class CustomerGUI in the Visual Editor. Figure 14-5 Visual Editor for a new class 474 WebSphere Studio Application Developer Version 5 Programming Guide Open an existing class with the Visual Editor Alternatively you can open any other Java class with the Visual Editor by using the context menu. Select the class and Open With - Visual Editor Figure 14-6 . Note The big dot in front of the Visual Editor menu item of the context menu indicates that the last editor used was the Visual Editor. Figure 14-6 Open With context menu Visual Editor look and feel The Visual Editor consists of three panes with views Figure 14-7 A graphical canvas is located in the top section of the Visual Editor. This is the Design view where you compose the GUI. The source file is displayed beneath it in the Java editor respectively the Source view. The Source view is an embedded version of the standard Java editor included with Application Developer. Here you can set breakpoints in the source use content assist and benefit from all the other functions available with the Java editor. The section Programming assists on page 115 provides more information about the Java editor in Application Developer. A palette of common JavaBeans is available on the left .
