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NetBeans IDE Web Development Support

Hi all,

The IDE provides the following features to help increase web development productivity:

• Wizards to create the following applications and web components:
  • Empty web application projects with the proper file structure and required files, such as the deployment descriptor.
  • Out-of-the-box support for JavaServer Faces, Struts, Hibernate, and Spring.
  • Visual Web JSF drag and drop functionality.
  • Web service files and web service client files, stubs, and other artifacts with skeleton code for making the connection.
  • JSP files with skeleton JSP and HTML statements.
  • HTML files with skeleton HTML statements.
  • Applets consisting of a Java source file with skeleton code and, after deployment, an HTML launcher file.
  • Servlets consisting of a Java source file with skeleton servlet code and corresponding entries in the deployment descriptor.
  • Filters consisting of a Java source file with skeleton filter code and corresponding entries in the deployment descriptor.
  • Web application listeners consisting of a Java source file with skeleton listener code.
  • Tag handlers consisting of a Java source file with skeleton Java programming language.
  • Tag files consisting of a JSP file with skeleton JSP code.
  • Tag library descriptors consisting of a JSP file with skeleton JSP code.
• JSP compilation to diagnose syntax errors.
• Menu items for one-click building and deployment of web applications.
• Code completion in the Source Editor for web components.
• HTTP Monitor for monitoring data flow in a web application.
• Debugger for debugging Java source code and JSP syntax.
• Ant integration that enables you to, for example, write a target to debug a free-form web project or write a target to deploy an application to the Tomcat 4 Web Server.

Cheers!

--James

P.S. I hope you remembered to set your clocks back an hour last night (if you're in Europe).

Posted at 09:00AM Oct 26, 2008 by branajam in NetBeans  |