Chapter 3. JBoss Tools Palette

In this chapter, we will discuss the JBoss Tools Palette, which is a very useful tool designed especially for speeding up the development of JSP, JSF, HTML, XHTML or any other text file that contains tags. In principle, JBoss Tools Palette is a collection of common tags, exposed through a flexible and easy-to-use interface.

By default, JBoss Tools Palette is available in the Web Development perspective that can be displayed from the Window menu by selecting the Open Perspective | Other option. In the following screenshot, you can see the default look of this palette:

JBoss Tools Palette

Let's dissect this palette to see how it makes our life easier!