Step 1: Create a Web Application (a Project and a JSP)

In this step, you will create a simple "hello world" web application: a project and a JSP.

The tasks in this step are:

Set Workshop Perspective

Depending on how you installed Workshop Studio, it may start in Resource perspective (the Eclipse standard starting perspective) or Workshop perspective (the Workshop Studio perspective).

Before starting to work with Workshop Studio features, you should set Workshop perspective. To do this:

1. Click Window > Open Perspective > Workshop. When Workshop perspective is active, you will see the perspective name just below the toolbar at the top of the workbench, and the AppXplorer view will be displayed instead of the Navigator view.

Create a New Project

The Eclipse IDE requires that all web application files be grouped into a project--a single top-level folder. Eclipse then generates metadata files and uses the project folder as a basis for building the web application and deploying it to a server. When projects are created, the features that the project will use (called facets) are specified so that the appropriate libraries and settings are added to the project.

Workshop Studio requires that web applications be created in a Dynamic Web Project in order to access the features of Workshop Studio.

By default, the project is created as a folder in the current workspace folder. If you wish, you may change the workspace before starting the tutorial by clicking File > Switch Workspace.

For this tutorial, we will create a new (empty) project. To create a new project:

1. Click on the AppXplorer link New Blank Web Project OR click File > New > Dynamic Web Project.

   

   Enter the name of your project folder into the Project name field. The project is created by default in the current workspace.

   Click Next to continue.

2. The next screen allows you to choose the features that will be used for this project. Since we will be creating only a single JSP for this tutorial, we might want to select JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) but no other features will be needed. Click Finish to create the project folder.

   

   The project files are created and appear in the AppXplorer view.

   

 

Create a JSP File

To create a JSP file:

1. Click File > New > JSP.

   

   Double click on the project folder name to expand it and select the WebContent subfolder as the parent folder for the JSP. Then fill in the file name in the File name field. Click Finish to create the JSP.

    

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