Eclipse has proven to be a best-of-class, open source, extensible application development framework. Eclipse offers many tools for developing Java applications including wizards, unit testing, debuggers, and editors. Not all of these tools support the development of enterprise applications. To make up for that, Pro Eclipse JST is the first book on enterprise development based on the latest Eclipse 3 standard.

Until this point, you would have had to spend a large amount of time locating and evaluating plug-ins to build a suite of enterprise tools. But the Eclipse Web Tools project has changed that by providing a comprehensive tool kit called J2EE Standard Tools (JST). JST paired with Web Standard Tools (WST) makes Eclipse a more complete application development framework.