Nexaweb Perspective
The Eclipse development environment provides different "perspectives" - which are defined collections of Eclipse views - that help you get your work done.Most of the time you will be in the Nexaweb Perspective shown on the right.
This consists of the (1) navigator where you can browse the contents of projects, (2) the editor, showing the canvas that is used to visually design the user interface and edit xml source, (3) the outline view that displays the structure of the open document, (4) the palette where the user interface components are visible, (5) the server view and (6) the properties of the selected component.
If you ever lose something from your perspective you can always reset it by choosing Window > Reset Perspective from your menu. Other views and perspectives are also available via Window > Show View.
To run your project at any time, simply press the
"Play" button located in the main toolbar.
Navigator and SVN
The navigator view allows you to browse your projects and add/remove files and folders to the projects. The right click menu provides many operations.Behind the navigator view is the SVN Repository view. This allows you to browse Subversion source code repositories. It has been preconfigured to allow you to browse Nexaweb samples and demos.
» More about the samples and demos.
Palette
The palette provides the built in UI components provided by the Nexaweb Ajax and Java clients. Simply drag and drop the components onto the canvas.This can be easily customized through the right click menu allowing you to add new components that you have created or to add preconfigured XML snippets.
Canvas
The canvas displays your visual editing environment for creating user interfaces. You can also see the XML code behind the user interface by clicking the "Source" tab. Right clicking and double clicking will provide different actions.This area is also where you can work with source files and data files.
Server View
This view displays the configured servers that you can deploy your projects to for testing. By default Apache is configured and ready to go - no action needed, however you can add a wide variety of servers to this view.
Outline
The outline view displays the structure of the XML document that defines the user interface. This view will also be used by other editors, such as the XML editor, to define document structure.Behind the outline view is the data view; this displays all the data binding and data service elements that have been configured into the application.
Behind that is the services explorer view; this can be used to display the WSDL files that are part of the project and connect to services such as HP Systinet.
Properties
This view shows the properties of the selected component. If a Nexaweb component is selected in the canvas or outline view this will show a tabbed view of all the properties. The top tab will always display all components while the bottom will always display components that are not defined by the schema. The tabs in the middle will display properties in different categories.Note that this will show you the properties of the active view. If it seems to be showing the wrong properties you probably have a different view selected.