Web Application Project

Use the New Web Application Project wizard to define and describe component support and folder structure of a Web application project.

Create a Web application project using the New Web Application Project wizard. Using this wizard, you can:

Create an empty project or select to use a project template.

Add component support for Sybase DataWindows, JavaServer Faces, and SOAP services.

You can select any or all of the following component support options.

Table 1. Component support
Component support type	Description
Sybase DataWindows	Create or import a DataWindow or DataWindow library and use the DataWindow object in your Web application to retrieve, present, and manipulate data from a relational database or other data source.
JavaServer Faces	Enable the JavaServer Faces (JSF) standardized user interface (UI) framework to build a Java-based Web application that runs on the server side and renders the user interface back to the client. For more information, see http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces. JavaServer Faces component support is selected by default.
Soap services	Enable the generation of service-managed beans during design time and the ability to invoke the service at runtime.

Note: If you select to use a project template, you inherit the component support in the template. You cannot add further component support using the New Web Application Project wizard. To add component support not set in the template, set the support in the project properties after the project is created.

Create references to other projects.

This lets you use the Services and XML schemas contained in the referenced project.

The folder structure of a Web application project varies, depending on a project's component support.

Table 2. Web Application project folders
Folder	Description/contents
<projectname>	The Web application project folder is the container for all project resources.
build	Common Eclipse files.
generated	Generated classes based on a managed bean created from a WSDL.
src	Java files used in the Web application.
webContent	Images, META-INF, and WEB-INF subfolders. Images – image files used by the Web pages. META-INF – MANIFEST.MF file, which is used to create zip files, and the sybase-easerver-config.xml file. The WEB-INF folder contains the files needed to build a Web application resources. Its subfolders include: lib – JAR lib files. tld – tag library descriptor (.tld) files, which contain the tags used by the Web application. wsdl – the .wsdl file that is used for Web service managed bean creation. The WEB-INF folder contains: faces-config.xml – the JavaServer Faces configuration file, which contains configuration information such as navigation rules, managed bean properties, and component properties. web.xml – the Web application configuration file, which contains configuration information for a Web application, such as servlet properties, context parameters, tag libraries, listeners, resource and EJB references, and security settings. .jsp files – each Java Server Pages (.jsp) file is a Web page.