> IBM is a large and sometimes clumsy organization with great resources once
> you find your way around. They also leave some (much?) of the
> support stuff
> to us consultants and in some cases even refer customers to us.
Yep, here in Sweden there doesn't seem to be any IBMers who know Java, if
you look at a project using VAJ there's always some guy recommended by IBM
but not working on IBM doing the support stuff.
> Concerning the stability issues with VAJ, they're known and also exist in
> some other VA environments, most notably VA Smalltalk. Expect
> them to happen
> (but then, I've had my fair share of stability problems and crashes with
> JBuilder and Visual Cafe as well) and save your workspace every now and
That is very true. Personally I don't recommend any Java IDE's, and all my
projects (if they're smaller) we're using simple text-editors (emacs,
etc...) and command-line tools to do the development.
The Java IDE-business is simply not mature enough yet.
(I miss the old Common Lisp and Smalltalk (VisualWorks)-IDE's... :-)
> then. I also believe that there are some changes coming up later with
> regards to the repository.
That's great! I've always considered the repository as a great idea badly
implemented. In a language like Smalltalk the repository fits extremely well
but in Java too much of the development is file-system-centric, so the
repository doesn't really make sense.
Also, it's extremely frustrating that you cannot manage "resources" in the
repository. Now with the J2EE, very much development goes on in files not
being Java-code (such as xml-deployment descriptors, etc.).
BTW, I think we're going a bit off-list here, this being a list about ejb.
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