The workbench provides a rich set of tools to create, develop, test, debug, and deploy enterprise applications. Some of the Java EE tools include:
The Enterprise explorer view allows you to manage and maintain your enterprise applications in one location.
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.
You can use Java EE wizards to create enterprise applications, including application client projects, Enterprise Java bean projects, connector projects, web projects, web fragment projects, and web Services applications.
You can import existing projects and modules into your current project; you can use export wizards to build, package, and export projects with a single click.
These tools simplify working with your code. Code validators check your projects for errors. When one is found, you can double-click it, in the Problems view in the product workbench, to go to the error location. For some types of error, you can also choose a Quick Fix, which automatically corrects the error. For both Java™ source and Java annotations, you can rely on content assistance to simplify your programming task. When you refactor source code, the tools automatically update the associated metadata.
The tools for Java EE allow you to manage projects easily. To share applications outside of a version-control system, you can import and export projects as archive files. To migrate your projects to the current version of the Java EE specification, you can take advantage of a migration wizard.