Chapter 6Organizing Your Development Project

All right, guys! It’s time to clean up this town!

—Homer Simpson

In this book we describe how to build applications that are defined by the J2EE specification. When you build an application, you create one or more projects that correspond to J2EE modules. You also use these same projects to organize your development work; that is, you use these projects

  • to manage the source code and files that make up the application,
  • to divide the work between the teams, and
  • to set up an automated process that builds the application, runs tests, and creates project reports.

This chapter starts with a basic description of the types of applications and projects that are supported in WTP. We will show you how to create ...

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