Building and deploying JSP targets

When you build a JSP target or JSP target files, the target or the files are copied from the target Source directory to the target Build directory. Building a target before you deploy it can be useful to verify links and make sure they work.

You can build JSP target files in a separate action, but when you deploy a JSP target or JSP target files, the target files are built automatically before being deployed. You can find more information in Chapter 12, “Building and Deploying JSP Targets.”

You can make sure that your Web pages appear and function as planned by inspecting the pages during development and then after deployment. Web servers are important for testing and deployment.

You can develop Web applications that are independent of the application server used for production deployment. If your server-side scripting uses the Web Target object model, then mapping information supplied during deployment translates between the Web Target object model and the object model for the application server you choose.

Table 2-10: Where to find information about testing JSP targets

For information about this topic

See this chapter

Viewing the appearance of your page in a browser or in the HTML editor’s Preview view

Chapter 3, “Working with the HTML Editor”

Using customized troubleshooting tools for 4GL JSP pages

Chapter 9, “Developing 4GL JSP Pages”

Viewing the deployed pages in the browsers you want your application to support

Chapter 12, “Building and Deploying JSP Targets”