Create dynamic web projects in Eclipse

The latest release of the Google Plugin for Eclipse supports the creation of Dynamic Web Projects for Google App Engine. Applications created in this manner fully leverage Eclipse’s Web Tools Platform (WTP), which makes it easier to create and structure Java EE web applications and allows Google App Engine developers to benefit from advanced tooling the Eclipse Ecosystem offers for the Enterprise space.







Here are a few features enabled by the new, WTP-enabled, Plugin:

• WTP/Maven integration, enables complex projects to take advantage of the Maven headless build system and the developer-friendly Eclipse tooling.


• WTP makes it much easier for App Engine projects to use the Eclipse Database and Dali JPA tooling to do either Google Cloud Datastore or Google Cloud SQL development.


• WTP Enterprise Archive (EAR) support allows for the aggregation of multiple App Engine modules as part of an overall App Engine Application as a WTP EAR project.


• Existing Eclipse WTP projects targeting another Application Server (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty, or GlassFish, etc) can be ported to App Engine as the runtime server

To get started, head to the documentation or simply create a new Dynamic Web Project after updating to the latest version of the Google Plugin for Eclipse.



-Posted by Rajeev Dayal, Software Engineer