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name, while the advanced enterprise Web development and modeling products are available

under the IBM WebSphere brand name. For the remainder of this book we refer to the

IBM

Rational Application Developer V6.0 IDE

simply as IDE.

IBM Rational product details can be found at the following address:

http://www.ibm.com/rational

The IBM WebSphere product details can be found at:

http://www.ibm.com/websphere

Even though we use the IBM Rational Application Developer for the examples in this book,

the workflow and screen captures are almost identical for any other IBM development IDE.

Even the open source Eclipse IDE with the Web Tools plug-in (WTP) can be used to follow the

examples. The open source Eclipse platform can be found at:

http://www.eclipse.org/

7.1.2 Create a new project

After we start the IDE, we are presented with the welcome window as shown in Figure 7-1.

We dismiss the window by clicking the X of the corresponding tab.

Figure 7-1 IDE welcome window

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The IDE supports different development scenarios such as standalone applications, J2EE™

enterprise applications, and so on. For our purpose here, we create a new

Dynamic Web

Project

because that is what a Java Server Page really is. In Figure 7-2 you can see how we

select the Dynamic Web Project from the File menu.

Figure 7-2 Creating a new dynamic Web project

We are now requested to enter a name for the new project and because we do not want to

specify any additional settings at this time we simply click Finish, as you can see in

Figure 7-3.

Figure 7-3 Naming the new project

All Eclipse based IDEs work with what is referred to as perspectives. A perspective defines

which task windows are visible, where those windows are located, and their size. It is an easy

way to configure the layout of the IDE for specific tasks and to show the task windows that are

relevant for the current task at hand.

Because we created a dynamic Web project, the IDE is asking us whether we would like to

switch the active perspective to match the tasks we are most likely going to perform as part of

a dynamic Web project. As you can see in Figure 7-4, we agree with the recommendation by

clicking Yes but we also checked the option to remember this decision so that the IDE does

not keep asking us when a perspective change is recommended.

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Figure 7-4 Switching the IDE perspective

Your IDE should look similar to the one in Figure 7-5. The left window shows the different

projects the IDE can contain and our TPFTime project was successfully added as Dynamic

Web Project.

Figure 7-5 IDE after successful addition of the TPFTime project