Every project has a project type associated with it. A project type may be changed anytime in the future. The Applet and Servlet project types are available for you convenience; these project configurations can be reproduced by using the Application project type by specifying the proper main class name, by entering the correct arguments and by configuring the correct classpath entries. Thus, if you are debugging Servlets you definitely do not have to use the Servlet project type especially if you wish to debug your servlets while running under a servlet engine other than the JSWDK that the Servlet project type uses.