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I posted some of our initial JSP taglib support for the Nitobi Complete UI and yesterday we posted some more good stuff!

Mike has been hard at work making a plugin for Eclipse WTP so that you can drag and drop your Nitobi components in the Eclipse IDE. He has also put together a plugin for Stuts 2. And for those that just want plain old JSP support he has also updated the JSP taglib. Go check out Mike’s post for the details of just download it below and give it a go!

Eclipse Plugin 0.8 (This is plugin uses the trial versions of the components)
Struts 2 Plugin 0.8
Nitobi Taglib 0.8 (some small kinks worked out)
Nitobi Server Library 1.0.1 (This updated library (used to be called nitobicomponents.jar) is needed for the Struts 2 plugin)

Thanks to the hard work of Godfrey, we have just released a beta version of our EBA AJAX ComboBox for Java Server Faces. We are trying to get all our current and new products built with support for JSF from the ground level and need your help to define the direction we want to take. Go and download the beta and let us know what you think!

For those who have not read this already, there is an interesting article from Tim over on the Radar about NetBeans vs Eclipse popularity.

We are currently working on our Java strategy for our AJAX components and so this is a very big question for us. Having been discussing some of the possibilities of AJAX and JSF with the Java Studio Creator team at Sun. Of course JSC is built on NetBeans 4.1 and from the sounds of the comments in Tim’s post Sun may have made a good choice. From an AJAX component vendors perspective I think that JSC makes a lot of sense compared to Eclipse since, as Robert Thornton mentioned in the comments of Tim’s post

Eclipse only recently left the beta stage in its support for web development, almost as if it were an afterthought. NetBeans has supported web development for years as part of its core functionality. Its web support has had time to mature and grow.

In particular there are some really great features in JSC such as the DataProvider architecture and JSF support. I still need to find some time to actually play around with JSC some more.