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Features in Eclipse itself

I've just started using Eclipse for the sake of the folding editor and plug-ins. Wish there were a plug-in for previewing CSS, though there is a simple CSS editor plug-in.

MyEclipse

Many consider the MyEclipse plugin (actually a set of plugins) to be an essential add-on for Eclipse. It's not free but it's very inexpensive (just over $30). It has a huge list of features including.

Smart HTML, Struts, JSF, CSS, Javascript, SQL, Hibernate, and J2EE deployment descriptors editors
JSP source editor
XML and XSD editors with smart code completion, DTD caching for offline support
Validation for HTML, XML, XSD, DTD, JSP, XSL and XMI files
Visual HTML Designer for WYSIWYG development, real-time preview, and round trip code generation
Struts configuration editor with code completion
Struts designer providing graphical drag-n-drop web flow design synchronized with struts-config.xml source
Java Server Faces (JSF) Developer - Graphical Navigation Flow Designer
Hibernate development tools with productivity wizards, code generation, and DB Explorer connector integration.
Database explorer, 25 DB-JDBC connector profiles, SQL editor with code completion and SQL query evaluation and testing.
Spring IDE Integration
Tapestry Support
Ad-hoc image preview for GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, ICO image types.
Snippet catalog with included library of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JSP, Struts, and JSF snippets
JSTL project support, add JSTL 1.0 Jars and Taglibs to any web-project
Application Server Integration
- Over 20 application server connectors including Bejy Tiger, JBoss, Jetty, Jonas, JRun, Oracle, Orion, Resin, Sun Java System, Tomcat, WebLogic and WebSphere.
- Integrated controls for starting, stopping servers.
Comprehensive UML support

It is available from http://www.myeclipseide.com/

Sysdeo Tomcat plugin

Eclipse-wise, just being able to start and stop Tomcat from a GUI rather than from multiple DOS windows is a delight.

Eclipse Web Toolkit Project

For those using Eclipse, the Eclipse Web Toolkit Project looks very promising, though it is currently a bit rough around the edges. Moving forward with JSR-168 and alternate view technologies like JSP/JSTL, integrated refactoring tools for both Java and presentation code sounds wonderful.

Eclipse Tutorials

Online video by Faizan Ahmed from Rutgers University
Setup a uPortal development Environment with Free/Open Source Software - Eclipse, CVS, Ant, Tomcat, JUnit, DBEdit

Configuration

For more information on configuring Eclipse to operate with uPortal 2.5 visit Practical uP25 XML Changes
Add all the jars in the uportal/lib/cache folder to the build path library list
Add xercesImpl.jar to the build path library list

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