Pro Eclipse Jst: Plug-Ins for J2ee Development

Before I knew about JST, I painstakingly developed J2EE applications and components as traditional Java projects in Eclipse. The JST provides quick development solutions to get your EJBs, Servlets, Web Services, etc developed quickly and deployed to the application server of your choice. I thought the book did a great job of walking through the wizards for creating the different types of J2EE projects. If you are looking for a book to provide in depth discussions on what EJBs, Servlets, Web Services, Entity Beans, JSPs, etc. are, then this is not for you. But if you already have a J2EE background and would like use the Eclipse IDE to develop your components, then I would recommend this book. My only complaint about the book is that it did not provide any discussion on how to version control your components. For example, if you create a WAR File for a web application that you want to package inside an EAR file, do you version control both the WAR and the EAR as separate projects? It seems that projects under version control would get messy if you have to version control every EJB and Web Application as a separate project.

The authors address both J2EE 1.4 and the Eclipse toolkits and plugins, focusing on the capabilities the IDE provides J2EE developers. Chapters introduce the Web Tools Platform, Java Standard Tools, Web Standard Tools, etc and cover the spectrum of tasks for components such as servlets and EJBs and everything in between. A very useful book, excellent for novice and intermediate developer.

Hello Chris and Hakeem, Please update your driver for the upcoming release of the WTP, it is outdated and is not usable with the WTP 1.0 Release Candidate (any version) . Also please provide support for at least JBoss 4.0.2 since it is the Application Server that you have chosen to use in your book. Other than that, keep up the good work.

It seems that everyone is looking at Eclipse for their next development project. Having developed J2EE applications using JDeveloper, JBuilder and WSAD - I was looking to learn yet another IDE. Yet Eclipse poses some unique challenges. Its open source and worse still, for J2EE, one needs to use a collection of open source products. Pro Eclipse JST was just what I needed. It's a concise, information packed read written for the experienced developer. The text stepped me through the setup in an intuitive manner with plenty of screen shots and helpful graphics. Highly recommended.