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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By : Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira
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Getting Started with Eclipse Juno

By: Rodrigo Fraxino Araujo, Vinicius H. S. Durelli, Rafael M. Teixeira

Overview of this book

<p>Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) such as Eclipse are examples of tools that help developers by automating an assortment of software development-related tasks. By reading this book you will learn how to get Eclipse to automate common development tasks, which will give you a boost of productivity.<br /><br />Getting Started with Eclipse Juno is targeted at any Java programmer interested in taking advantage of the benefits provided by a full-fledged IDE. This book will get the reader up to speed with Eclipse’s powerful features to write, refactor, test, debug, and deploy Java applications.<br /><br />This book covers all you need to know to get up to speed in Eclipse Juno IDE. It is mainly tailored for Java beginners that want to make the jump from their text editors to a powerful IDE. However, seasoned Java developers not familiar with Eclipse will also find the hands-on tutorials in this book useful.</p> <p><br />The book starts off by showing how to perform the most basic activities related to implementing Java applications (creating and organizing Java projects, refactoring, and setting launch configurations), working up to more sophisticated topics as testing, web development, and GUI programming.</p> <p><br />This book covers managing a project using a version control system, testing and debugging an application, the concepts of advanced GUI programming, developing plugins and rich client applications, along with web development.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Getting Started with Eclipse Juno
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Version Control Systems
Index

Chapter 7. Web Development Using Eclipse WTP

In this chapter, we are going to take a break from using Eclipse to develop applications for the client side. Instead, we are going to explore how Eclipse can be used to develop web-based Java applications. In order to develop such applications, we are going to use Java servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP). To run and deploy our example applications, we are going to use Apache Tomcat. Different from desktop applications that run in a standalone fashion, web applications run in a server. Thus, this chapter also details how to deploy Java servlets and JavaServer Pages on a server, namely, Apache Tomcat.

This chapter starts off with a brief introduction to the benefits of Java-based web technologies. Then, we present some background on servlets and JavaServer Pages. We also briefly describe the role that Apache Tomcat plays in implementing these technologies. If you are already familiar with these topics, just skim these first sections and skip to...