I graduated from vi/command line to IBM's Visual Age and JBuilder.
Both are very impressive products as far as IDE's for EJB/Servlet/JSP
development are concerned. Lately because of project considerations, I am
using VAJ for development and have been impressed with it's Team
capbabilities and it's tight integeration and unit testing environment for
both Servlets and EJB's.
Your productivity is definetly improved by using a tool as once you have
understood the internals, such mundane task are left to be automatically
completed by the tool.
VAJ's compile on the fly technique is very impressive. For instance, I can
have my test client (VAJ generated) running, find a bug in my EJB business
method, leave the server and client running, correct the code and save and
voila, can re-test the method without going thro' a compile/build cycle.
The same applies to the servlet development environment too.
We also use the Model 2 MVC pattern for presentation side logic and the JSP
execution monitor inside VAJ has been very useful.
Finally, a lot depends on how comfortable you are with a tool. Coming from
having worked with "vi" and command line stuff for yonks, it was difficult
at first. But, the productivity aspects of using a good tool (IDE), I can no
longer ignore. Sufficient to say, I would find it hard to go back to command
line stuff.
-- Aravind
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> Sent: Saturday, 29 April 2000 01:03
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> Subject: XEmacs & Ant or IDE?
>
>
> Dear fellow Bean developers,
>
> For the last few weeks i've been developing EJBs and Servlet/JSP
> applications using XEmacs, Ant and a command line. This works
> great for me, and I think I have learned a lot about EJB internals
> just by being exposed to the raw code for the deployment descriptors
> and build process.
>
> However, my question to you is; are more people in the same situation,
> and if you're using one of those nice graphical IDEs, how productive
> are you? Do you like the tools? Etc.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stefan
>
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