Eclipse WTP provides tools for developing standard Java web applications and Java EE applications. Typical web artifacts in a Java environment are HTML pages, XML files, webservices, servlets and JSPs. Eclipse WTP simplifies the creation these web artifacts and provides runtime environments in which these artifacts can be deployed, started and debugged. In Eclipse WTP you create "Dynamic Web Projects". These projects provide the necessary functionality to run, debug and deploy Java web applications. If you are completely new to Java web development you may want to read Introduction to Java Webdevelopment .

Eclipse WTP supports all mayor webcontainer, e.g. Jetty and Apache Tomcat as well as the mayor Java EE application server. This tutorial uses Apache Tomcat as a webcontainer.