Using Eclipse

[Michael Sullivan]

I use both Eclipse and WSAD, and sadly I only utilize the base 25% of the functionality. Lets talk only eclipse: how much of the functionality is absolutely essential to J2EE development? How much of the core engine is devoted to other things, like Ant and CVS?

Thanks!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Michael,
The core eclipse (without plugins) doesn't do J2EE. It does do java; do you mean that?

[Kishore Dandu]

I think there are free plugins that come with Eclipse that can enable ant etc. There are other plugins that can help with weblogic server intrgrated into your ide.

[Michael Sullivan]

hmmn... now that I take a closer look, I do see that ANT is an external tool. Also, did you mean that eclipse stand alone is strictly a java tool, but via plugins is J2EE capeable?

Thanks all!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

"did you mean that eclipse stand alone is strictly a java tool, but via plugins is J2EE capeable? "
Let me qualify that. Eclipse (for java, as opposed to swapping in another compiler is a java tool. While you could do J2EE without any plugins it would be a nightmare. Technicalities aside, I agree with this comment.