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Using JSFToolbox

Since JSFToolbox is a Dreamweaver extension suite, it will start automatically once you launch Dreamweaver. JSFToolbox is also a service that runs in the background while you work in Dreamweaver's Web authoring environment. Here is a description of what happens after installing JSFToolbox when you launch Dreamweaver:

1. Dreamweaver loads the JSFToolbox extension
2. JSFToolbox starts a Java Virtual Machine
3. JSFToolbox attempts to bind to port 7575

Since JSFToolbox is a Java extension for Dreamweaver, it depends on the existence of a Java Runtime Environment on your development computer. You can download a version of JSFToolbox that includes the Java Runtime Environment at www.jsftoolbox.com, or you download a JRE for free from Sun Microsystems at java.sun.com

For performance reasons, JSFToolbox runs as a separate process from the Dreamweaver application process. This enables JSFToolbox to perform some of its work behind the scenes while you work in Dreamweaver.

The JSFToolbox service listens on port 7575 and once Dreamweaver connects, Dreamweaver and JSFToolbox share data over a single TCP/IP connection until you shut down Dreamweaver. This requires that port 7575 is available.

If you have another service listening on that port, or if your firewall software prevents JSFToolbox from accepting connections, the JSFToolbox service will be unable to start and the extension will not work properly.

When you shut down Dreamweaver, this also shuts down the JSFToolbox service.