Java Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 1-7.
The initial Java perspective is comprised of four panes. All the panes can be resized by clicking and dragging on
their borders and some panes can contain different views. Each view has a tab at the top of the pane that displays the
views name and, at least, a close button. You can switch between views by clicking on the tabs. Initially, the Package
Explorer view, the editing area, and Outline view display nothing. However, as Java classes are created the views
contents will change. Most of the time, these views will display (respectively) a project navigation tree, source code,
and a Java class navigation tree. One of the views provided in the task pane (at the bottom of the perspective) keeps
track of work (e.g., problems) that needs to be completed.
Tutorial: Creating and Deleting a Project
RAD stores everything in projects. Projects are comprised of packages and packages contain Java classes. This means
that a project and package must exist before creating a Java class. (Think of projects and packages as specialized
folders. In fact, a project and its packages are implemented as folders when a project is exported from RAD to a
Windows environment.)
1.
To create a project, click File (on the Menu bar), New, then Java Project (see Figure 1-8 ).
 
Search WWH ::




Custom Search