With the recent release of Eclipse 3.2 and the Calisto release of 10 Eclipse projects, I thought I would give Eclipse a try. I’ve not used Eclipse in anger since the 2.x days, however I’ve used it on an off since, but never for my main development. I decided to give Eclipse 3.2 a try on Mac OS (Intel) so my view is tainted by how it works on that particular OS. My comments may or may not be valid on other OS – I don’t know. To try out Eclipse, I decided to write a few simple web apps – nothing too complicated, simply a few JSPs and JSF backing beans. The first problem I encountered was trying to get support for Glassfish inside Eclipse. There is a plugin availble for this, but this has to be downloaded and installed separately. This isn’t difficult, but a fiddle not the less. After installing the plugin, I found there are issues with it. It doesn’t always start the server correctly, and nearly always says that it has failed to start the server. If you want a few seconds, sometime...
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