A new extension announced by the Visual Studio Code team provides support for Eclipse Jetty, a Java-based Web server and servlet container.

With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.

VS Code relies heavily on language servers to provide the language-specific "smarts" such as code completion through use of the Language Server Protocol. The graphic below, from Microsoft's "Language ...