WPT 0.7 Out... Hold your horses!

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:48:03 GMT

So, after playing around with Eclipse's Web Tools Project 0.7, which was released last friday and reading some of the documentation from the site, I can say that, at least for me, WTP isn't ready for prime time yet.

The developers of WTP acknowledge this, as they changed the version number from 1.0 to 0.7 from the original plan, and hope to have a version 1.0 until the end of this year. Although a lot of functionality is already there and working, the feel for it is that there's still a lot to do.

You can't convert an existing project to a web project, for example. Source and webapp dir routes seem to be non-changeable, and there's still lack of support for many Application Servers.

For me, it's back to MyEclipse IDE, with no plans to change to WTP in the near future.

Eclipse Web Tools Project 0.7 out soon

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:16:04 GMT

According to the milestone plan for the Eclipse Web Tools Project, they are scheduled to release the first stable build of the project today. Many people have waited for this project to come out, as it will add a very needed feature to Eclipse, namely the creation of web projects (JSPs, J2EE, etc.)

I have been toying around with the latest Release Candidates, and one of the things that stand out for me is that although they support a whole variety of J2EE runtime application servers like JBoss, Websphere, JOnAS, Weblogic and even Geronimo, they seemed to have forgotten to add support for Sun ONE Application Server.

Was this omission on purpose? No one will know, but conspiracy theories abound on the subject.

It will also be interesting to see how companies like Genuitec, the makers of MyEclipse IDE (an IDE based on Eclipse with add-on plugins and features for J2EE development) will respond to the market. The only reason (in my opinion) that they exist was because eclipse didn't had an integrated set of plugins for web development, which will no longer be the case. Somehow they'll have to evolve if they want to remain in business.

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WPT 0.7 Out... Hold your horses!

Eclipse Web Tools Project 0.7 out soon