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Meet the JavaScript Development Toolkit A JavaScript Eclipse plug-in wants to hold your hand; it wont be long before youre productive with JavaScript Bradley Childs May 27, 2008 The JavaScript Development Toolkit (JSDT) is an open source plug-in that brings robust JavaScript programming tools to the Eclipse platform. JSDT streamlines development, simplifies code, and increases productivity for pure JavaScript source files and JavaScript embedded in HTML. JavaScript development isnt easy. Uneven Web browser compatibility, disappointing documentation, and weak tools compound the problem. Fortunately, the tools situation brightened with the latest release of the JavaScript Development Toolkit (JSDT), a plug-in set for Eclipse. Eclipse is an open source IDE framework with an architecture designed for expansion and flexibility. JSDT runs in Eclipse and is added as a plug-in. JavaScript on Eclipse isnt a new concept, since there is HTML and some JavaScript support available from other plug-ins, but what distinguishes JSDT is the richness and complexity of the tools it offers that greatly enhance Web development productivity. JSDT offers many of the same features and core design found in the Java Development Toolkit (JDT). JSDT is slated to replace the current JavaScript editor in the Web Tools Platform V3.0 release. IDEs and JavaScript You may wonder why JavaScript IDEs arent more common. It would seem with the popularity of Web 2.0 and a larger number of developers clamoring to use JavaScript in their blogs and community pages, we would notice a flood of new JavaScript tools. Nevertheless, Notepad and the browsers Refresh button remain the No. 1 JavaScript development environment for most programmers. The problem lies in the interpretation of the JavaScript language. Unlike Java™ or the C languages, JavaScript is loosely typed and difficult to model accurat