JSP Development

Workshop is an IDE built on the Eclipse platform that simplifies development of JSP-based applications for deployment on a variety of application servers including Tomcat, JBoss and WebLogic Server.

Workshop provides a professional JSP source editor, as well as a WYSIWYG visual JSP editor which supports simultaneous Source / Visual Editing. Workshop also provides full support for JSP 2.0 tag files and the JSP 2.0 Expression Language (EL), convenient smart editors for property editing, and a JSP variables view.

Topics Included in this Section

JSP Editor

Introduction to the Workshop JSP Editor.

Creating a New Web Page

How to create a new JSP.

Converting HTML Files to JSF

How to convert static HTML files to JSF pages.

Formatting Your Web Pages

Using CSS style sheets.

Using the Design Palette: Data

Drag and drop data objects onto JSP/JSF pages.

Viewing Included Pages

Easy navigating to included content.

Organizing and Adding Tag Library Descriptors

Managing TLD files.

Tag Library Customization

Customizing libraries with metadata.

Locating Java Servlet Files Generated from JSP Files

Finding the servlet code generated from JSPs.

Controlling Web Application Look and Feel with JSP/JSF Templates

Using JSP/JSF templates.

Adding and Removing JSP templates

Managing JSP/JSF templates.