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Many New Components. There are many
new components which you can read about here.
New components like Palettes, new grouping behavior for basic
components, layout components, composite components like
schedulers and alerts, many new nonvisual components like converters
along with data converters and AJAX component support and a
library. The AJAX component source code was developed at Java.net
under the BluePrints Solutions Catalog. Download the AJAX
Component Libarary (zip) today. (Note:
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Portlet Support. The Sun Java
Studio Creator 2 IDE provides visual tools for creating and
designing portlet
applications that conform to the JSR-168 Portlet specification. You can
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Data Provider Components. When you
drag-and-drop a data table from the Server Navigator to a web
page,
the IDE creates a data provider component along with the RowSet for the
table.
This component is a non-visual abstraction for wrapping your sources of
data –
whether it's a relational database table, flat file, web service, or
some other
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Import HTML pages into your
project. Read more here.
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CSS Editor. With the new
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Editor you can edit project stylesheets
and give your projects and applications the look-and-feel you want. You
can read more here.
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Auto-Deployment. Sun Java
Studio Creator 2 performs the deployment process automatically. See here.
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Drag-and-Drop Business Components.
You can incorporate methods or the business logic of an EJB component
by just drag-and-dropping them onto the editing area. See here.
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The Style Editor is a graphical
interface that lets you select changes
for a component's individual formatting and positioning properties. See
here.
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CVS support. See here.
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The HTTP Monitor utility included
with Sun Java Studio Creator 2 enables
you to monitor the flow of data within a running web application.
See here.
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Task Manager assists you by managing
the tasks you need to accomplish. See here.
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Migration assistance allows
migration from earlier projects. See here.
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Project Management. The Sun
Java Studio Creator 2 integrated development environment
includes a versatile Project Manager which helps you organize your
source code and simplifies the application development process from
design to deployment. See here.
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Simplified Event Processing Lifecycle.
The Sun Java Studio Creator 2 IDE simplifies event processing lifecycle
to four methods. See here.
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Virtual Forms. A new feature
called Virtual Forms provides a visual way to group components
on a page that operate together without impacting other components on
the same
page. See here.
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Request Beans. Request beans
are special beans whose sole purpose is to transmit data between
pages. See here.
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Drag-and-Drop Consumption of Web Services.
See here.
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and many more features. See here.
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