An excellent guide for a great development tool

Before I knew about JST, I painstakingly developed J2EE applications and components as traditional Java projects in Eclipse. The JST provides quick development solutions to get your EJBs, Servlets, Web Services, etc developed quickly and deployed to the application server of your choice. I thought the book did a great job of walking through the wizards for creating the different types of J2EE projects.

If you are looking for a book to provide in depth discussions on what EJBs, Servlets, Web Services, Entity Beans, JSPs, etc. are, then this is not for you. But if you already have a J2EE background and would like use the Eclipse IDE to develop your components, then I would recommend this book. My only complaint about the book is that it did not provide any discussion on how to version control your components. For example, if you create a WAR File for a web application that you want to package inside an EAR file, do you version control both the WAR and the EAR as separate projects? It seems that projects under version control would get messy if you have to version control every EJB and Web Application as a separate project.

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