Eclipse IDE provides many features to help a developer in development activities. Help to write code, integrate with servers, deployment, quality check and what not. In this article, I am consolidating those features which help us in improving productivity. Here I have used Eclipse Galileo and for unit test generation it is JUnit 4.4.

Eclipse’s more powerful yearly release is just around the corner. Called Galileo, this release brings many features which will ease our life while developing Java applications. Java IDE is always there, in addition to this IDE there are tools for JEE, JSF and Mylyn. Scheduled to get released on 24th of June 2009, RC2 version is available for testing. Complete feature list is available here . Here is abstract of features.

Improved tabbing – when a file is opened in a tab, and that file itself requires multiple tabs. If you …

In this example, we will write a simple application using JSF and it’s default renderer – HTML renderer on Eclipse IDE. Next, the application will be deployed on tomcat, and run to see results.  Functionality of our project is simple – enter first name and last name, on press of submit button, show the complete name. If any field is empty then show error.
Create a Dynamic Web Project
Create dynamic web project in eclipse using following steps. In eclipse, click on New > Project to arrive at following screen.

On this screen, …

This article gives the first example of Java Persistent API (JPA) with Hibernate, Eclipse on Oracle database.

Most of the presentation tier frameworks provide support to client side validations. Spring MVC is not different in this principle. Just that the way it is implemented is little different.