Pro Eclipse JST: Plug-ins for J2EE Development [Paperback]

Christopher M. Judd (Author), Hakeem Shittu (Author)

Book Description

Series: Expert's Voice | Publication Date: June 2005

Eclipse has proven to be a best-of-class, open-source, extensible application development framework. Out of the zip file, Eclipse offers many tools for developing Java applications including wizards, unit testing, debuggers, and editors. However, these tools do not support the development of enterprise applications.

Up until this point, an enterprise developer using Eclipse had to spend a large amount of time locating and evaluating plug-ins to build a suite of enterprise tools. The Eclipse Web Tools project has changed that by providing a comprehensive tools kit for developing enterprise applications called the J2EE Standard Tools (JST). JST along with WST (Web Standard Tools) will make Eclipse a much more complete application development framework for Java developers.

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About the Author

Christopher Judd is the president and primary consultant for Judd Solutions, LLC. (www.juddsolutions.com). He is also an international speaker, open source evangelist, Central Ohio Java Users Group board member (www.cojug.org), and co-author of Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (1590591259). He has spent eight years developing software in the insurance, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation industries. He currently focuses on consulting, mentoring and training with Java, J2EE, J2ME, and web services.

Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: A-Press; 1 edition (June 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590594932
• ISBN-13: 978-1590594933
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,598,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent guide for a great development tool, March 24, 2006

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Adam Lee (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Eclipse JST: Plug-ins for J2EE Development (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Review of Eclipse Tools plus J2EE Architecture, January 6, 2006

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Greg (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Eclipse JST: Plug-ins for J2EE Development (Paperback)

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.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent primer to transition J2EE development to Eclipse, October 21, 2005

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Vasil Hlinka - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Eclipse JST: Plug-ins for J2EE Development (Paperback)

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.