The Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project provides APIs for J2EE and Web-centric application development. In includes both source and graphical editors for a variety of languages, wizards and built in applications to simplify Web Service development, and tools and APIs to support deploying, running, and testing apps.
Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0 is available for immediate download and can also be installed as part of Europa. This major update delivers its key goals of improved quality, adopter readiness, harmony with other Eclipse projects, and many new features for end users. Eclipse developers will be particularly pleased with the debut of major features and/or specification updates to EJB3 JPA, JSP 2.0, JSF 1.2, Axis2 Web Services, Tomcat support, and source editing. This release also introduces Java EE 5 project support.
Here are some of the more noteworthy features available in WTP 2.0 (June 29, 2007):