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To access the DB Output view:
1. Click Window > Open Perspective > Other to open the Select Perspective
window.
2. Select Data and then click OK to open the Data perspective.
3. Click the DB Output tab on the Tasks view to display the DB Output view.
Figure 6-16 DB output view
To view the sample contents of a table, navigate to a table definition in the DB
servers view, right-click the table definition and select Sample contents from the
context menu. The table contents will be displayed in the DB output view as
shown above.
6.2.6 Creating Web pages to access the database
The Database Web Pages wizard provides an easy way to quickly create a
simple HTML form to solicit user input and JSP pages that show the database
access results. This set of pages can then be modified or customized later. This
saves a lot of initial repetitive work. In this section we will use the wizard to create
Web pages that search the database for a record based on user input.
There are two approaches to using this wizard.
► You can create the pages and assume that you will use them as the basis for
the real pages in the application. This implies that you will probably rename
the pages created to a naming convention that suits your project, and that you
will update the generated code to customize the look and feel for your
application or to add additional functions.
► Or you can create the pages in an out-of-the-way location, for example, a
folder that is not in the Web Content directory structure. You can open these
pages and copy/paste relevant code into pages that you create for the
application. By placing the wizard-generated pages somewhere other than
the Web Content directory, you can prevent them from being deployed to the
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