JSP 2.0 and UltraDev

[SoccerAl]

Does anyone else use Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 for JSP? I guess you can tell I'm a designer. UltraDev produces JSP 1.0 and my co-workers all hand-code JSP 2.0, so they're not compatible as far as I know. I'm curious if UltraDev can be souped up into using 2.0 or whether any other good GUI tools are out there for JSP.

Al Abut

[sugarkane]

Hi Al, welcome to Webmasterworld.

According to Macromedia's site, UltraDev can be extended [macromedia.com] using Javascript to add support for later versions of JSP. Maybe someone's already written an extension that'd suit your needs, although I couldn't find anything... might be worth a few searches though.

Alternatively, there's a list of other JSP development tools here [jspin.com]

[SoccerAl]

Thanks sugarkane,

The link to jspin.com was really useful! Do you recommend or use any of the editors they have listed? There's tons of tutorials and I'm going to start digging. I just ordered a book on building ultradev extensions as well, hopefully that will help.

And I posted the question wrong! It's JSP 1.2 that's the latest edition, not 2.0. The servlet spec is up to 2.1 or 2.2 or something.

[sugarkane]

> Do you recommend or use any of the editors

I'm afraid not - I've never actually done any work with JSP, although having spent the last couple of hours ploughing through tutorials I think that might be about to change ;)

How easy do you find it to work with from a designer's point of view?