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