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Selected Menu

The contents of the Selected menu vary slightly, depending on the type of program element you have selected.  Unless otherwise indicated, the following options are available for all program element types.

Option Description
Open Opens a browser on the selected program element.
Open To Opens a browser on the selected program element, to a specific page, which you choose from the sub-menu.
Go To Goes to a selected program element within the Projects page of the Workbench.
Add Launches the Add SmartGuide for the program element type you choose from the sub-menu.
Method Template (types, methods) Inserts a method in the current type, following the method template.
Import (projects, packages, types) Launches the Import SmartGuide to let you import classes and interfaces from the file system or from another repository.
Export (projects, packages, types) Launches the Export SmartGuide to let you export packages or types to the file system, as files or into a Jar file, or to another repository.
References To (types, methods) Lets you search for code references to the selected element or related elements.
Declarations of (types, methods) Lets you search for code declarations of the selected element or related elements.
Search (packages, projects) Opens the Search dialog to let you search for program elements or text.
Replace With Lets you replace the selected program element with an edition from the repository.
Delete Deletes the selected program element from the workspace (but not from the repository).

tentergf.gif (577 bytes) Alters the team baseline for the package, by deleting the class or interface from it.

Reorganize Provides sub-options for copying, moving, and renaming the selected program element.
Manage (projects, packages, types) Sub-option Version lets you version the selected program element, if it is an open edition.tentergf.gif (577 bytes) You must be the developer to version a program element.

tentergf.gif (577 bytes) Sub-option Release lets you release the selected program element into its containing program element edition.  You must be the owner to release a program element.

Sub-option Create Open Edition creates an open edition based on the versioned edition of the selected program elements.  tentergf.gif (577 bytes) You can only create open editions of program elements that you own.

tentergf.gif (577 bytes) Sub-option Change Owner changes the owner of the selected classes and interfaces to someone else in the package group. Any member of the package group can change class ownership.

Compare With Lets you compare a program element with an edition from the repository, or two program elements with eachother.
Run Lets you run the selected program element (if it is a runnable class), a class contained by the selected program element (if it is a package or project), or the class that contains the selected program element (if it is a method).
Document (projects, packages, types) Lets you generate Javadoc documentation for a set of classes, or print source or graph views of classes.
Print (methods) Lets you print the source code for the selected method.
Tools (types) Has submenu items for tools and enterprise access builders (for the Enterprise version of VisualAge for Java), plus any third-party tools that you add yourself.

tentergf.gif (577 bytes) Submenu items may include the following:

  • External SCM - Interface to external software configuration management tools, for check-in and check-out.
  • Data Access - Generate customized classes for manipulating database contents from Java programs
  • ET/400 - Export, compile, run, and debug AS/400 Java applications; generate classes to create new client GUIs for AS/400 Java applications.
  • ET/390 - Develop Java applications on the workstation and run them remotely on the OS/390 JVM; bind the bytecode into executables or DLLs and run them in the OS/390 and CICS/ECI environments.
  • San Francisco Wizard - Generate business objects for developing business applications with the San Francisco Frameworks.
  • Tivoli Connection - Enable definition of Tivoli management characteristics for an application.
Properties Opens properties notebook for the selected program element.  For programs, you can set the class path, applet parameters and attributes, or application command line arguments and properties.

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Searching for a Program Element in the Repository
Browsing the Workspace
Adding Projects and Packages from the Repository to the Workspace
Adding Types and Methods From the Repository to the Workspace
Replacing Editions in the Workspace (Reloading)
Comparing Two Program Elements
Comparing Editions of a Program Element
Versioning a Program Element
Creating an Open Edition
Copying or Moving a Program Element
Generating HTML Documentation for Classes