Best IDE for developing servlets? and...

[celebi]

Hi, what is the best IDE for developing java servlets?

I would also be greatful, if somebody would come up with a middle size project that involves servlets. e.g. servlet front-end with a database(access or... ?) back-end. I'm a newcomer to this area. Would highly appreciate some help.

Thanks....

 

[Cagliostro]

if you want free software use Eclipse

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[jwenting]

Eclipse is excellent. Plugins can make it so you can debug right into a linked Tomcat server.

I would read up about web application design first though.
Don't get your servlets too fat, and separate out the presentation and business logic (effectively making the servlet not much more than a marshaller that calls other classes to do the business logic and forwards the results to some JSPs for display on screen (or another servlet using an HTML template or XSL sheet to render the output).