Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP)

constant use, I like

Recently I was trying to set up WTP to develop and debug web application I'm working on (Subversion DAV server module of SVNKit (http://www.ohloh.net/projects/5019)). Web application is extremely simple at the moment - just a single servlet.

In an hour WTP crashed several times, and despite I was able to run and manage tomcat server from within WTP, I was not able to get my servlet deployed an running.

I finished with ant script to start and stop tomcat and redeploy my web application plus debug traces to debug it. WTP is not mature enough from my point of view - will give it another try after Eclipse 3.3 release.

Alexander Kitaev.

I don't really care for the JSP stuff, mostly the good XML editor. Autocomplete based on schema/DTD is great. And it works way better than Eclipse's buggy Ant editor.