Eclipse webtools project (WTP) and its performance / quality

Question

Our company is using eclipse since several years now (we are using WTP since release 0.7)

I am currently evaluating eclipse 3.6.2 with WTP 3.2.3 which s

Answer 1

To answer the following question: Do you have some best practices to speed it up, especially for upper-mid-sized like ours?

Turning off validation and auto-building after file-saving is a good start to increase performance.