Eclipse WTP Milestone M4

01 May 2005

The Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project has released WTP Milestone M4 yesterday. It was built against the Eclipse SDK 3.1M6 release, which was released about a month ago.

A few months ago, I tested WTP M3 in conjunction with Eclipse SDK 3.1M5, but it wasn't quite there yet... Two weeks or so ago I installed the latest nightly build of WTP M4 on Eclipse 3.1M6 on my home machine, and this already looked very promising, although I haven't had much of a chance to really exercise it, and I didn't quite dare to install it on my PC at work. Now that there are at least official milestone releases for the latest WTP and Eclipse builds, I think I'll give this a try.

To be honest, I don't really care about the app server integration features of WTP, as I prefer to handle deployment and related issues using Ant, outside my IDE. But at least being able to edit JSPs with full support for syntax highlighting, code completion, etc. is a feature that I consider absolutely essential, and this seemed to work very well when I tried it a few weeks ago. Maybe not quite like IntelliJ IDEA, but it's definitely a huge step in this direction.

I'll let you know how it goes.

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