3. Create a new web application project

A Web Application Project is an Eclipse Java project that contains the source code, web pages, images, resources, and configuration files for building a Java program that can be deployed to a Web Container.

3.1. Create new web application project

1. Open a new workspace by choosing File > Switch Workspace.
2. Be sure that you are in Workshop perspective (indicated just above the AppXplorer view at the top left of the workbench window). If you are not in Workshop perspective, choose Window > Open Perspective > Workshop.
3. From the AppXplorer view, click on New Example Web Project . Expand JavaServer Faces (JSF) select Workshop JSF Tutorial and click Next.

   

4. Specify the location for your tutorial and click Finish to create the project.

   

The Workshop Perspective provides the following views:

• AppXplorer view

AppXplorer logically organizes web artifacts, provides facility to browse web components and manage web application project. It groups java classes referenced by the web artifacts under Referenced Types .

• Tag Libraries view

The Tag Libraries view lists the standard JSP and HTML tag libraries, the tag libraries declared in the web.xml file and the tag libraries defined in your web application. It provides an easy way to insert tags to your documents by providing single-click access to tag editors and wizards.

When you click to insert a tag from this view, it opens a wizard to specify the tag information, and the corresponding source code is generated automatically.

• Properties view for tag editing

Properties view provides three types of tag editors

• Smart Editor: This is a custom editor for efficiently editing most commonly used attributes for a tag.
• Property Sheet: This displays all the tag attributes and their values.
• Tag Selector: This is located at the bottom of the Properties view and is used to activate the tag editor for a specific tag in a tag hierarchy.
• Variables view

This displays the variables available to the current JSP page and allows inserting it in the page and navigating in the Java code associated with the variables.

• Outline view

This displays the structure of Java class and web components in a tree form.

3.2. Review web artifacts

This is a summary of the different parts of the web application structure.

	Folder or file Overview workshop-JSF-tutorial Project folder with project name /web (Web App Root) Root folder for web application artifacts /Faces Configuration Lists JSF configuration elements /pages Folder for HTML and JSP presentation pages /Resources Support files (.java and .jsp files) and resources (images, .css file) for JSF application /Typing_Aid Text files containing statements for reference /WEB-INF Holds folders / files used as part of the runtime Web application /classes Holds class files for the web application /config Folder for configuration files faces-config.xml JavaServer faces configuration file /lib Folder to place third-party .jar files which is used at run-time i.e. .jar file for logging, tag libraries, JDBC drivers etc. /src/java Folder to place java source files /tld Folder to place tag library definition files web.xml Deployment descriptor for web application /web/WEB-INF/src/java Folder that maps to src/java folder where you can place java source files /resources Folder to place the resource files application.properties Application configuration resource file /Referenced Types Java classes referenced by web artifacts

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