Developer provides the following WTP (Eclipse Web Tools Platform) Eclipse tools for developing J2EE applications:

• WTP Connector
• Management Server Remote Management

The following figure shows the relationship of the tools.

Figure 1-3 Relationship of the Eclipse tools for developing J2EE applications

After installing Developer, you can use WTP to develop and deploy J2EE applications to a J2EE server in the debug environment and use WTP to start the J2EE server. You can also use WTP Connector and Management Server Remote Management to operate the J2EE applications developed with WTP.

WTP Connector

WTP Connector is an Eclipse plug-in. You use WTP Connector to perform operations such as starting a J2EE server from WTP and deploying J2EE applications to the J2EE server.

Management Server Remote Management

Management Server Remote Management is a library that enables access to the J2EE server from WTP Connector.

The operations from WTP are passed to the Management Server Remote Management as requests. The requests received by the Management Server Remote Management are further passed to the Management Server, and the requested operations are executed on the J2EE server. You must set up a Management Server Remote Management to operate the J2EE server from WTP.

WTP connector and Management Server Remote Management receive the requests from WTP, and pass the process to the Management Server in the debug environment. The Management Server deploys the J2EE application and starts the J2EE server through the Administration Agent.