On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 10:17 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Ms Linuz writes: > > > Alan Chandler wrote: > ... > >>So my questions are: > >> > >>1) What tools do I need to develop the application. This includes code > >>editiing, build environment, unit testing, I tried to setup eclipse on my > >>workstation but there are unsatisfied dependencies (java runtime?). > >> > >> > >> > > > > Netbeans : http://www.netbeans.org > > the best java ide i see so far > ... > >>Obviously all this from standard debian packages if that is possible > > Netbeans is not a debian package. It might be interesting to look at it, > but what is the debian way?
Personally I think you're buying yourself a world of pain if you try to do servlet/ejb/etc java development using the free java tools. They are definitely getting better and are useable for some tasks but aren't completely there yet. This doc was updated 3 june 2005 and so is presumably up with the latest developments: http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ (I just found this via google). http://java.debian.net is also useful (I found this in the faq). I do a lot of java development on Debian, and simply download Sun's standard java for Linux and a standard Eclipse build and work from there. They just need to be untarred, and $PATH set appropriately. Of course junit is also very important, and possibly ant. I am aware that Fedora ships with a version of Eclipse compiled via gcj which is cool. But I am not aware of a debian package for eclipse. And anyway Eclipse 3.1 is coming out soon with some very useful new features for jsp/j2ee development. If I was writing a GUI app for linux I might be tempted to try java + the gtk java bindings + gcj to generate a native binary from java source. But not for servlet development. If you need more info I suggest you ask on the debian-java mail list instead of here. Regards, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
