[bensam]

Hi,
How is JavaIDE (JDT) shipped with Eclipse SDK different from MyEclipse?
When do you use them? Can you use JDT to write servlets?
Or can you use MyEclipse to write simple java applications?

thks
sam

[Riyad Kalla]

Sam,
Good question. The layering looks something like this:

+ Eclipse <-- Application platform
  + JDT <-- Java code tooling platform (.java files)
    + MyEclipse <-- J2EE java code tooling, builds on top to provide web-based development

[bensam]

So you are saying, in order to write servlets you need MyEclipse and for writing simple java application/applet you use the default Eclipse JavaIDE.Am i correct?

[Riyad Kalla]

Well servlets are straight Java, so you can write then using the basic Eclipse JDT install. But if you want to start editing JSPs either by source or visually using a designer, connect to databases, reverse engineer your data model to Hibernate-enabled POJOs, hook Spring DAOs into your persistence layer, model and deploy your web application or enterprise application, do visual Struts or JSF development or any other web-specific technology, MyEclipse will help you with that, where as default Eclipse JDT won’t.

[bensam]

Hello
Yep. Now i understand. Thank you.
shall try out MyEclipse.
rgds
csb

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