The AppBrowser contains various elements. Select a link to learn more about an element.
Select one of the links below for help on a specific AppBrowser topic.
AppBrowser Element | Additional Views | Description |
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JBuilder main menu | The main menus are located on the main menu bar and include File, Edit, Search, View, Project, Run, and so on. | |
Main toolbar | The main toolbar is displayed at the top of the AppBrowser under the menu bar. It's composed of smaller toolbars grouped by functionality: File, Edit, Search, Build, Run/Debug, Navigate, and Help. | |
Content pane | Contains many views, such as the source, design, Bean, and documentation views. These views and their features vary by JBuilder edition. | |
Source | Displays the source code of the open file in the editor. | |
Design | Displays several designers for the open file. Use the designer to visually design files that inherit from java.awt.Container. |
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Bean | Exposes the BeansExpress property, event, BeanInfo, and property editor designers. Read-only in JBuilder Personal. | |
UML | The UML tab displays a UML browser for viewing and navigating UML diagrams of the selected class or package. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
Doc | Shows the API reference documentation (if available) for the class that is opened in the content pane. | |
History | Displays information that helps you manage revisions of files. Features vary by JBuilder edition. | |
View | Displays the opened HTML, XML, or image file in a browser or image viewer in the content pane. To view XML files, the Enable Browser View option must be enabled on the XML page of the IDE Options dialog box (Tools|IDE Options|XML). Viewing XML files is a feature of JBuilder SE and Enterprise. | |
Web View | Displays the output from your running web file, such as JSPs, servlets, SHTML, and HTML. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
Web View Source | Displays raw HTML. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
WebApp DD Editor | Displays an editor for the web.xml deployment descriptor file of a WebApp. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. |
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Transform View | The Transform View tab displays a browser view of the transformed XML document with an XSL stylesheet applied. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
Transform View Source | The Transform View Source tab displays the source code of the transformed XML document. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
EJB Designer | The EJB Designer tab displays the EJB Designer, which you use to create EJB 2.0 components. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
EJB DD Source | The EJB DD Source tab displays the source code of the deployment descriptors JBuilder creates for you as you build your enterprise beans. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
EJB DD Editor | The EJB DD Editor tab displays the Deployment Descriptor editor. You use the Deployment Descriptor editor to make changes to an EJB's deployment descriptors. This is a feature of JBuilder Enterprise. | |
Project pane | Displays the contents of the active project. | |
Structure pane | Displays the structure of the file currently selected in the content pane. | |
Message pane | Displays various processes, such as build messages, compiler warnings and errors, search results, debugger UI, refactoring, unit testing, and version control. | |
Debugger UI | The user interface for the debugger. | |
Status bars | Three status bars in the AppBrowser display messages: main status bar, file status bar, and message status bar. |