Well, you can get the APIs from any number of places.  If you install
Tomcat (which you'll need to test your servlets anyway), then you've got
a copy of the servlet API.  All you have to do is tell Eclipse where to
find it.  If you want a few extra conveniences, there are several
plugins to Eclipse to launch web apps from within the IDE, etc.  I find
that they are more clutter with no substantial benefit, but they are
available if you like.

Why *would* this be integrated in Eclipse?  The servlet API and Eclipse
hardly share a release schedule.  I'd hate to be in the position of
telling a customer, "I'd love to do that, but the IDE I use doesn't do
2.4 servlets yet, so we have to wait until it does."

timmy_dale12@hotmail.com wrote or quoted:

Eclipse is far too big anyway.

I don't think they should start including the Java API of the world
and his wife to make it easier to link programs which use them.