The New Enterprise Application wizard creates a new containing an empty enterprise application. You open the New Enterprise Application
wizard by opening the New Project wizard and selecting
the Enterprise Application template from the Enterprise category.
In the Name and Location page, you have to set the following properties:
Project Name. Specifies the display name of the project. This name
is also used to create the project folder.
Project Location. Specifies the parent directory of the folder where you want to
store the project metadata and source code.
Project Folder. Concatenates the project location and project name settings to
identify the project folder.
Server. Specifies the server where you want the enterprise application to be deployed.
Only servers that are registered with the IDE
are available to be selected here. The bundled Tomcat Web Server is registered by default.
Note that you cannot deploy J2EE applications and JSR-109 web service clients to the Tomcat Web Server.
J2EE Version. Specifies the J2EE level against which you want to develop your enterprise
application. You can deploy your application to an implementation that supports that specification level
or a higher specification level.
Create Ejb Module. Sets whether an EJB module is created as a submodule of the enterprise application,
and its name. By default, it is created and named project-name-EJBModule. If you do
not let the IDE create the EJB module together with the enterprise application, you can
Create an EJB Module Project later.
Create Web Application Module. Sets whether a web application module is created as a submodule of the
enterprise application, and its name. By default, it is created and named project-name-WebModule.
If you do not let the IDE create the EJB module together with the enterprise application, you can
Create a Web Application Project later.
Create Application Client Module. Sets whether an application client module is created as a submodule of the
enterprise application, and its name. By default, it is created and named project-name-app-client.
If you choose not to create an application client when creating the enterprise application, you can
create an Enterprise Application Client project later.
Source Level Recommendations. One of the following checkboxes will appear
if JDK 1.5 is set as the default platform in the
Java Platform Manager.
The J2EE 1.4 and J2EE 1.3 specifications do not recommend JDK 1.5. Therefore, if you want
to create a portable application, select the appropriate checkbox:
Use JDK 1.4 and Set Source Level to 1.4. This checkbox appears if
JDK 1.4 is available in the
Java Platform Manager. Select this checkbox to set both your JDK level and your source level to 1.4.
Set Source Level to 1.4. This checkbox appears if JDK 1.4 is not available
in the Java Platform Manager. Select this checkbox so that at least your source level is set to 1.4.
Set as Main Project. Sets the newly created project as the main
project.
When you click Finish, the project is created on your computer and opened in the IDE.
You can view its logical structure in the
Projects window
and its file structure in the Files window.