By using Web tools, you can access relational data using the Java™ Persistence API (JPA), and then generate JSF user interface components to display, create, update, and delete data.
By using the JPA consumption wizard, you can configure JPA entity beans as well as the manager bean facade in order to:
You can generate and configure a JPA manager bean facade. This facade provides an interface for business logic and shields client code from database schema details.
You can configure deployment information, such as JPA persistence unit settings and data source definition, to be used when publishing a Web application on IBM® WebSphere® Application Server.
This product provides support for developing Web 2.0 applications, based on technologies available in the WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0. In particular, Web 2.0 development support includes:
You can use Web tools to discover SOAP-based Web services. You can also generate Java client proxies for JAX-WS or JAX-RPC services that use either the IBM WebSphere Application Server or Axis Web services runtime environment.
By using a set of visual tools, JAX-WS and JAX-RPC Web services can be consumed easily via Java client proxies on a Web page using JSF user interface components.
The tools offer these changes to JSF support:
You can now create multiple pages from selected nodes. You can also zoom in and out of Web Site Navigation to enlarge or shrink the view of the site structure.
You can edit pages in the Source and Design or Preview views simultaneously by using split horizontal or vertical panes. You can also absolutely position all elements on the Design page by dragging and dropping to the desired location. You can set attribute values for multiple selected elements at the same time.
Struts tools offers support for Struts framework 1.2.9 and 1.3.5, including support for the new taglib attributes that were added in Struts 1.2 and 1.3.