The Java EE perspective contains a selection of views and editors that are customized to be most useful to a Enterprise developer.
The Java EE perspective includes workbench views that you can use when developing resources for enterprise applications, EJB modules, web modules, web fragment modules, application client modules, and connector projects or modules:
The Enterprise Explorer view provides an integrated view of your projects and their artifacts related to Java EE development. You can show or hide your projects based on working sets. This view displays navigable models of Java EE deployment descriptors, Java artifacts (source folders, packages, and classes), navigable models of the available web services, and specialized views of web modules to simplify the development of web applications. In addition, EJB database mapping and the configuration of projects for a Java EE application server are made readily available.
The Annotations view provides a way for you to create, edit, browse, and generally keep track of the annotations that you use in your applications.
The Outline view in the Java EE perspective shows the outline of the file that you are editing. For example, if you are editing an enterprise bean in the Java editor, the Outline view shows the outline for the Java class.
The Tasks view lists the to-do items that you have entered.
The Problems view displays problems, warnings, or errors associated with the selected project. You can double-click an item to address the specific problem in the appropriate resource.
The Properties view provides a tabular view of the properties and associated values of objects in files you have open in an editor.
The Servers view shows all the created server instances. You can start and stop each server from this view, and you can launch the test client.
The Snippets view provides categorized pieces of code that you can insert into appropriate places in your source code.
The Data Source Explorer provides a list of configured connection profiles. If categories are enabled, you can see the list grouped into categories. Use the Data Source Explorer to connect to, navigate, and interact with resources associated with the selected connection profile. It also provides import and export capabilities to share connection profile definitions with other Eclipse Workbenches.
The Status bar provides a description of the location of selected objects in the Enterprise Explorer views in the left side. When file and deployment descriptors are open, the status bar shows the read-only state of the files and the line and column numbers when applicable. Sometimes when long operations run, a status monitor appears in the status bar, along with a button with a stop sign icon. Clicking the stop sign stops the operation when the operation can be canceled.
Editors are workplace tools that allow you to edit the various types of files contained in your project. Depending on the type of file that is being edited, the appropriate editor is displayed in the editor area. For example, if a .TXT file is being edited, a text editor is displayed in the editor area. The following list contains some of the editors available to you in the Java EE development environment: