Comments on: Software Development in Java

By: cjpeltz

cjpeltz — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:25:21 +0000

Checkout the following Eclipse plug-ins:
MyEclipse J2EE IDE: http://www.myeclipseide.com
Lomboz: http://www.objectlearn.com/index.jsp
Sysdeo tomcat plugin: http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatPlugin.html

All support some level of JSP debugging.

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Chris Peltz, Software Technologist
Management Solutions, Applied Technology Office
Hewlett-Packard Co.
chris.peltz@hp.com

By: shamitverma

shamitverma — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:21:47 +0000

Can you debug JSP pages with Exclipse / Tomcat combination?

By: tmjimob

tmjimob — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 10:08:22 +0000

Thumbs up to eclipse and tomcat in combo. It basically does most of what you need, depending on the scope of the applications. It has excellent debugging capability of javabeans running within tomcat (or tomcat runs in the eclipse debugger).
-jim

By: cjpeltz

cjpeltz — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:21:35 +0000

Another open source development environment you may want to consider is Eclipse (www.eclipse.org). It is a free, extensible open source environment for building C, C++, Java, and a host of other programming languages. The great thing about the Eclipse environment is its plug-and-play ability – a number of plugins are provided (some free, some at cost) that enable you do to UML modeling, J2EE development, XML manipulation, etc. You can find a number of these plugins here:

http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/

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Chris Peltz, Software Technologist
Management Solutions, Applied Technology Office
Hewlett-Packard
chris.peltz@hp.com

By: nigelmcfarlane

nigelmcfarlane — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 02:26:19 +0000

JBOSS is the other free tool to consider. The equivalent from Sun is inside Sun’s ONE suite of
technologies. JDBC is the layer to commit to if
you want to stay database-independant everywhere
except inside your SQL.

If your programmers like scripting, then JSP
(Java Server Pages) is a lower-level solution.

- Nigel.

By: cjpeltz

cjpeltz — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:36:34 +0000

Hi Tendy77 -

If you are looking to build Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications (i.e., n-tier applications involving presentation, business logic, database logic, etc.), I would recommend looking at the BEA WebLogic Workshop environment. I consider the tool a Microsoft Visual Studio “equivalent” in the J2EE world, and for those companies that are just looking at the world of J2EE and Web services, it provides a very nice environment for quickly building apps.

The tool supports the notion of controls where you can easily drag and drop resources (e.g., a database resource, EJB resource) and connect it to your application. The tool is also Struts-based, enabling you to build Model-View-Controller based architectures with presentation, logic, and control clearly separated. Support for Java Server Pages (JSPs) is also provided, enabling you to quickly build interactive pages and make them more dynamic. In my opinion, the tool has great support for Web services, including asynch messages if you want to build more reliability and increase loose coupling in the solution.

WL Workshop is currently only targeted to the WebLogic platform, but some of the underlying programming frameworks in Workshop have been submitted to open source under the Beehive initiative. This will enable apps to run on other deployment containers such as Tomcat moving forward.

Other than Workshop, I’d also recommend Borland JBuilder. A great, all-around Java development environment for building Java and Web-services based apps. If you combine it with the complete ALM solution provided by Borland (e.g., requirements via Caliber, design via Together, source control mgmt via StarTeam), you have a great end-to-end-solution.

Hope that’s helpful.

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Chris Peltz, Software Technologist
Management Solutions, Applied Technology Office
Hewlett-Packard
chris.peltz@hp.com

By: ateeqs

ateeqs — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:29:55 +0000

IBM Websphere Development Studio is a very good tool for Java and Web Development.