XDoclet
Xdoclett seems to be a nice way of generating web.xml descriptor based on the JavaDOC style comments in a source code. From what Chris showed me, it looks it’s quite difficult to run though. First, the problem is that it’s not particularly verbose (even with verbose option on). Second, it looks that due to some bug in it, it has problems looking for source/detination files specified through properties <property name=”bla” value=”bla”&gl, but it requires it to be <property name=”bla” location=”bla”&gl It doesn’t seem to make much sense to me – probably there’s some bug in it.
Anyway, it looks like a nice technology for developing servlets.