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

WTP (3.2.3) is slow for me too. I belive I have found some ways to make it not so slow:

• We use maven, so there is a target directory which contains a copy of all JSP's and some other XML's. I have recognized that they are sometimes scanned by the WTP validators. But this is not necessary, so I have excluded them from validation (Project/Properties/Validation/XXX/Exclude Group/). (You should be able to gain the same effect when marking the target directory as derived, but that does not work for me some times ;-( )
• I have made the (not scientifically proven) observation, that WTP seems to be faster with JSPX than JSP files.