While developing enterprise applications in the Java™ EE
perspective, the enterprise explorer view is the main view of your Java™ EE projects and resources.
The enterprise explorer view in the Java EE
perspective is a view that allows you to manage and maintain your
enterprise applications in one location. The enterprise explorer view
provides you with
- An integrated view of all project resources, including models
of Java EE deployment descriptors
(if you are using deployment descriptors), Java artifacts, resources, web services, databases,
and web project artifacts.
- A way to view all the modules associated with your project.
- Search bar capabilities that allow you to filter the files in
your project folders according to the search parameter you type in
the search bar. For example, if you type xml in
the search bar and click Search, only the xml
files show up in the Enterprise Explorer. If you type jar in
the search bar and click Search, only the
jar files in your project (excluding the jars on the classpath) show
up:
- A Toggle Project Grouping button to organize
your projects by project type: The
result is a tree organized by project type:
- Customization options, so that you can select what functionality
you want available in the enterprise explorer view. Click the down
arrow at the top right of the Enterprise Explorer view, and select Customize
View...:
- Version control management information (VCM) can be turned on
and off from the Preferences page: .
- Classpath module dependencies can be modified by selecting
- View filtering is supported by clicking the down arrow at the
top right of the Enterprise Explorer view, selecting . Resources can be filtered by name, project type, or
content type. Files beginning with a period are filtered out by default.
- The status line shows the full path of the selected resource.
- Errors and warnings on resources (including Java, HTML/JSP, and Links Builder errors and
warnings) are indicated with a red error or yellow warning next to
the resource with the error, as well as the parent containers up to
the project.