Borland® JBuilder™ Developer’s Guide

Design Guidelines

Design guidelines for using InternetBeans Express are simple. Whether using servlets or JSPs, the implementation is restricted to only a few patterns. With the separation of the different responsibilities of each component, InternetBeans force the implementation to work the designed way, which is an HTML template having tags that will be substituted with dynamic data.

Use Existing HTML Files

JBuilder and InternetBeans Express are intentionally not HTML designers. When InternetBeans Express adds data-awareness to elements in an existing HTML page, it does not change their size or position. So, when binding InternetBeans Express components to a Web page, the look of the page doesn’t change, except that its elements are now data ...