Tomcat & JBoss plugin for Eclipse

[Unnsse Khan]

Hello there,

I am new to eclipse and develop on Mac OSX & deploy to WinXP. My question is:

(1) What is the best plugin for Tomcat, XML support, and JBoss? I already have Tomcat installed in:

/Developer/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.28

Would the recommended plugin point to this directory or does it have its own tomcat implementation embedded inside itself? Is it easy to create executable jars, war & ear files, from these plugins?

Same questions apply to JBoss.

(2) What are the top downloaded plugins that most users of eclipse use? I mean the hottest items...

I would appreciate it if someone could e-mail me back the answers and also post the responses to this thread...

With thanks!

--Unnsse

[Frank Malinowski]

What do you mean by plugin for Tomcat and JBoss? Are you looking for the ability to debug from within Eclipse or is it something else?

As far as Eclipse plugins go, personally Eclipse is my least favorite IDE but if forced to use it I wouldn't use it without the MyEclipse plugin. It costs $30 but it is well worth it.

http://www.myeclipseide.com/

http://www.myeclipseide.com/ContentExpress-display-ceid-15.html

Later, Frank

[Unnsse Khan]

Thanks... I'll have to check it out.

[Chris Johnston]

For Tomcat: Sysdeo Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin
http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatPlugin.html

For XML: XMLBuddy
http://xmlbuddy.com/

for JBoss: I have not really found a really good plugin yet for JBoss, however, here are two suggestions
JBoss IDE: http://www.jboss.org/products/jbosside
Lomboz: http://www.objectlearn.com/index.jsp