Before you begin work in the IDE, you should be familiar with the following concepts:
Templates determine the initial appearance and behavior of the objects you want to create. They help reduce the amount of time and effort involved in creating your application. Java components, such as Swing and Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) containers, are provided as standard templates. Templates are also provided for applets, classes, dialog boxes, HTML files, text files, and bookmarks.
You can begin working in the IDE without creating a project first. You can first create the files required to produce an applet or an application, and later create the project to organize the files. You can use all the functions, which are available in the Filesystems tab of the Explorer window, when working with your new files. By organizing your work in the IDE into projects, you can operate on the files as a whole. For example, when you compile a project, you compile all of the Java source files in it.
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IDE Overview
Starting with the Basic IDE Tasks Filesystems and Objects Configuring the IDE Projects in the IDE |