The Servers window, typically located at the top left corner of the IDE, enables you to
- choose databases to use as data sources for your applications, and then
drag the databases into your forms
- choose existing Enterprise JavaBean components to use in the IDE
- choose web services that provide methods for your applications, and then
drag the web services into your forms
- choose and set up deployment servers for testing and deploying your applications
If you do not see the Servers window, you can open it by choosing View > Servers.
The Servers window displays the following nodes that you can right-click to perform actions with databases, web services, and deployment servers:
Data
Sources. This node shows you a logical view of the
databases that your applications can use as a data source.
If you right-click this node, you can add a database in the
Add Data Source dialog box and you can give it a data source
name that the IDE displays under this node. Once you have
added one or more databases, they appear as nodes under this
one. You can open these nodes and look through the tables
in each database, and you can drag and drop tables onto your
applications' pages in design mode.
When you install the IDE, the bundled database is installed at the same time.
Enterprise JavaBeans. This node shows all the Enterprise JavaBean components available to the IDE. You can right-click the node and choose Add Set of Session EJBs or Import EJB Sets to add Enterprise JavaBean components to the IDE. After adding an Enterprise JavaBean component, you can use it in your application.
Web
Services. This node shows all the web services available to the
IDE. You can right-click the node and choose Add Web Service
to add a new web service. After adding a web service, you can drag it
into your applications' pages in design mode.
Deployment
Server. This node enables you to start, stop, refresh, and view
the properties of the installed application server, Sun JavaTM System
Application Server Platform Edition 8. Deployment servers
are the containers for your web applications.
If you have started the server, you can expand the node and see
the server's deployed components and resources.
Remote
Deployment Servers. This node enables you to add, remove, and set up production servers. Then, you can
automatically deploy to them, instead of creating a WAR file and installing the WAR file on your
remote server.
Bundled
Database
Server. This node represents an installation of the bundled database. If you right-click this node to open the contextual
menu, you can start or stop the bundled
database server.
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