Eclipse - JSP Editor

[Zulfikar Dharmawan]

Hi all,
Does anyone know any plugin for Eclipse for JSP editor? Well, couple of features needed are code completion and syntax highlighting.
Thanks before

[Lasse Koskela]

Consider paying $30 for a MyEclipse license.

[Gary Cheng]

You could find a free j2ee plugin at objectlearn

[Matt Raible]

Another choice is http://colorer.sourceforge.net/ - personally, I prefer HomeSite or BBEdit.

[Alexis Sumalpong]

For JSP/Servlets I prefer "Likha DevCentre" ... it controls Tomcat from the IDE.
http://download.com.com/3000-2417-10227362.html

Originally posted by Zulfikar Dharmawan:
Hi all,
Does anyone know any plugin for Eclipse for JSP editor? Well, couple of features needed are code completion and syntax highlighting.
Thanks before

[Matthew Phillips]

I'll 2nd the suggestion for the Lomboz plugin. I've been pretty happy with it.

[Mikey Warren]

Suprised no ones mentioned solareclipse.
Although it doesn't do code completion, which is what I really miss, and the syntax highlighting is a bit hit and miss, its what I use at work, and the best we've found so far.
http://solareclipse.sourceforge.net/
I would consider paying $30 for MyEclipse if it did code completion on JSPs, just had a quick look at their website and couldn't see if would or not.
Think we tried colorer, but decided solareclipse was better (seem to remember that colorer doesn't let you use spaces instead of tabs, amongst other things).
Ideally I'd like an HTML/JavaScript/JSP editor that worked in the same way as the main Java editor for Eclipse, and provided code completion for HTML and JavaScript which I always end up having to reach for manuals for when I'm forced to work on JSPs, and for free - but suppose thats asking too much - be interesting to see how the various plugins develop over time.

[Jeroen Wenting]

I tried Lomboz before reverting to SolarEclipse.
Performance went down the drain when I installed Lomboz and our project layout doesn't work well with Lomboz either (could not get it to understand where the code for our custom tags is nor the included JSP fragments).
It DOES look nice though, I'll give them that, and when running on a machine with loads more RAM and starting from scratch with your project using it and following their ideas to the letter I guess it is indeed a good tool.

[Wayne Parrott]

Mike Warren wrote:

I would consider paying $30 for MyEclipse if it did code completion on JSPs, just had a quick look at their website and couldn't see if would or not.

I'm a member of the MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench development team and our JSP editor provides code completion of std jsp tags, custom tags, java scriptlet, and html tags. Other features include custom formating, line nums, print margin, JSP validation, and auto import statement similar to the Java editor. For those interested you can view an online demo at the following link
MyEclipse Web-tools Demo
or a quick overview of the MyEclipse J2EE workbench at
MyEclipse Web-tools overview doc
Wayne Parrott
Genuitec, LLC
www.myeclipseide.com

[Jeroen Wenting]

Cheers, I tried Lomboz and found it limiting and yielding poor performance. After installation for some reason Eclipse often just was stuck for up to a minute, clearly an unworkable situation.
I know the workstations here are low on resources (256MB RAM isn't all that much these days) but that's what we have to work with so no use complaining.
Also, our project is an existing one and the JSP editor that comes with Lomboz didn't like our project structure and thus threw up a host of errors in all JSPs (missing taglibs mainly, which is perfectly alright as they're compiled and packaged during deployment to the server which runs on a different machine so the classes and sources aren't where Lomboz expects them and no way to tell it where to find them).
Is your editor more flexible (can I point it to a folder and tell it "here's the tld for taglib X, now go and use it"? And of course similar options for class libraries (I'm trying to reduce the amount of Java scriptlets but there's several hundred older JSPs that use them a lot, will likely take years to refactor everything).
[ February 05, 2004: Message edited by: Jeroen Wenting ]