Developing enterprise Java applications using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) is difficult enough. Developers need to use good integrated development environments (IDEs) and tools to simplify the complexity and increase developer productivity. The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) pr- ect is one such collection of tools. WTP is the first open source comprehensive collection of tools for building J2EE applications on top of the Eclipse Platform. WTP is an Eclipse project found at http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/. It contains two subprojects. The first is the Web Standard Tools (WST) project, which is primarily focused on supporting web development with tools for HTML and XML, and managing servers. The s- ond is the primary focus of this book, the J2EE Standard Tools (JST) project, which contains tools for developing J2EE components like EJB, JavaServer Pages, servlets, and Web Services. This book is intended to teach developers how to become productive J2EE developers using a combination of JST and Eclipse. Who This Book Is For This book is for Java and J2EE developers wanting to learn how to develop enterprise Java applications using the Eclipse Web Tools Platform and specifically the J2EE Standard Tools subproject. This book is also intended for architects and managers evaluating Java and J2EE devel- ment tools.
