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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

Implementing your very first JSP using Eclipse WTP


The previous sections got us started with Tomcat, servlets, and Eclipse WTP. As you saw, despite the benefits provided by Eclipse WTP (it generated all the structure of the web project for us and also took care of generating a significant chunk of code when we implemented the previous example servlet), embedding HTML into your Java code feels a little awkward. As we mentioned, JSPs were introduced to make the creation of dynamic content more straightforward and appealing. JSPs let you mix HTML and Java code in a better way than servlets. Rather than embedding HTML into Java code, JSP makes it possible to embed dynamic content into HTML. Recall from the previous sections that a JSP is an HTML page containing some special elements. The elements that are rendered into dynamic content resemble HTML elements. However, they are componentized Java programs. Besides these HTML-like elements, a JSP page can also include Java code (scriptlets).

It...