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  Asked: Nov 2 2004   2:04 PM GMT
  Asked by: carlosdl

Best IDE for building JSP pages


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This is just for educational purposes.
I want to build some JSP pages for a university project, and I'm looking for a J2EE IDE (better if free), but I'm, not sure which is best or easiest to use. I have taken a look to Net Beans 3.6 and I like it, but it's too heavy for my computer. Also I tried Eclipse with the Lomboz plug-in to integrate it to JBoss, but I can't successfully create a "hello world" page.
I would like to hear your suggestions of the best IDE, and if you know where I can get Eclipse manuals or examples for building J2EE apps.
Thanks for your help.

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Last Answered: Nov 5 2004  5:38 PM GMT  by mcp111




Altova XMLSpy 2005 is one of the latest jsp editors. IT has intellisense for quick coding and can also handle xml, xslt, etc.
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juncool  |   Nov 5 2004  10:32PM GMT

try JCreator, download it from <a href="http://www.jcreator.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.jcreator.com</a>

John 3:16 :=)

 

dicemancometh  |   Nov 6 2004  10:07AM GMT

NetBeans is free and good. <a href="http://www.netbeans.org" rel="nofollow">www.netbeans.org</a>

 

cjpeltz  |   Nov 7 2004  10:46PM GMT

carlosdl -

The Eclipse environment is probably one of the best all-around, flexible framework for IDEs. While you mentioned the Lomboz plug-in, there are actually a handful of J2EE development plug-ins for Eclipse that support JSP development.

You can visit the Eclipse Plug-in Central site (http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/) to see a list of available plug-ins. From this site, you can view some of the J2EE development tools available today.

One plug-in that has gotten very good reviews is the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench. You can download a 30-day trial eval of this plug-in at:

<a href="http://www.myeclipseide.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.myeclipseide.com/</a>

Good luck.

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mulkers  |   Nov 9 2004  7:05AM GMT

You might aswell need other kind of functionality from your IDE. Maybe a Struts configuration editor or a JSF toolbox could be worth the money. The J2EE platform you use might also influence your choice as J2EE vendors do have in general a companion IDE. ex: Websphere/Webshpere studio, Weblogic/Weblogic Workshop, Oracle App Server/JDeveloper, etc etc.
I use Eclipse 3 and myEclipse 3.8.2, that combination provides me most of the functionality I need, including several JBoss versions support. myEclipse costs 30$ per year but you can try freely for 30 days.
Regards.
Robin