Eclipse Pluto Server Plug-in
To make developing portlets with Eclipse a little bit easier when using the Pluto bundled with Tomcat, I developed a little server plug-in that will automatically rewrite the web.xml as needed when publishing a portlet web application to the Pluto server on deployment from within Eclipse. This provides a nice lightweight rapid development environment without needing to maintain an additional pluto specific web.xml file.
Tested with Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) and requires WTP 2.0.3+.
News
- Jun 22, 2008 - Open sourced on Google Code, released minor version 0.2.5 to reference the new update site
- Jun 01, 2008 - Added a sample eclipse project, roughly equivalent to the hello world portlet in the screencast demo.
- Oct 21, 2007 - Added a screencast demo.
- Sept 13, 2007 - Released version 0.2.4.
Update site
http://pluto-server-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pluto.server.update
Just create a new "remote site" in the Eclipse update manager, using the above location, to install the Pluto server plug-in.
Eclipse Europa users: Make sure that you run the Update Manager to pull in the latest updates for WTP (at least version 2.0.3). See issue #2 for more details.
Demo
See the screencast which demonstrates how to install the plug-in, and how to create and deploy a simple portlet to Pluto.
Screenshot
Adding a Pluto (bundled with Tomcat) server
