[jamroco2000]

I’m not sure if I installed myeclipse right or not – or maybe I’m expecting it to do something it doesn’t but hopefully someone can help me here.

I want to use myeclipse for JSP development. Now when I create a java project in eclipse its fairly straight forward. I create a class – type my code – which eclipse validates for me and I can access objects in different libraries as required provided I’ve imported them properly into my project.

Now for the longest time I’ve used Dreamweaver to do jsp – but the part that is lacking in Dreamweaver is JSP and java validation of code.

So what I was hoping that myeclipse would do is it would allow me to create a jsp project. In that project I could reference certain custom libraries (i.e. a jar file that was already built) that performs business logic in that project. Then when I create a jsp file – I could access those libraries and have my code validated just like it would a java file. Plus because I mix both java code and html/javascript – it would be nice if I could access the dom from a jsp file as well.

Right now when I create a jsp file – I have access to jsp tags (i.e. jsp:useBean) but other than that – that is it. I get no html code completion, no access to the javascript dom, and I can’t find a way to import a jar file into the project so that I can reference it and have code complete in the jsp file.

So for example – I would like to open a jsp file up and at the top do:

<%
String blah = “”;
blah = blah.

Now after the period – just like on a java class file I would expect to see all the methods available to a string – but I don’t.

So am I expecting to much – or did I install it wrong.

Oh here is my installtion summary

*** Date:
Friday, August 8, 2008 2:41:48 PM MDT

** System properties:
OS=MacOSX
OS version=10.4.11
Java version=1.5.0_13

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 6.5.0 GA
Build id: 6.5.0-GA-20080609

*** Eclipse details:
Eclipse SDK

Version: 3.3.1.1
Build id: M20071023-1652

Eclipse Project SDK

Version: 3.3.2.R33x_r20071022-7M7J7C_Mu2gop0b_GAwplOBhyuKO
Build id: M20071023-1652

Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.3.2.R33x_v20071022-_19UEksF-G8Yc6bUv3Dz
Build id: M20071023-1652

Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.3.1.r331_v20070629-7o7jE72EDlXAbqAcnbmyg1rf8RIL
Build id: M20071023-1652

Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework GEF

Version: 3.4.0.v20080115-677-8082A5696H274A
Build id: 200806091334

Eclipse RCP

Version: 3.3.2.R33x_r20071022-8y8eE9CEV3FspP8HJrY1M2dS
Build id: M20071023-1652

Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Version: 3.3.2.R33x_r20071022-7N7M4CYWLBCz-yHkMIuHN
Build id: M20071023-1652

Eclipse startup command=-os
macosx
-ws
carbon
-arch
x86
-showsplash
-launcher
/Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse
-name
Eclipse
–launcher.library
/Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.carbon.macosx_1.0.2.R331_v20071019/eclipse_1021.so
-startup
/Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20070828.jar
-keyring
/Users/dilly/.eclipse_keyring
-consoleLog
-showlocation
-vm
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework

[Loyal Water]

Can you go to File > New > Project > MyEclipse Web Project and then try code completion in the index.jsp that gets added to the project by default. Does the drop down list show up ?

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