If you are targeting Weblogic or iPlanet (or even Tomcat), your best bet is
WebGain Studio. JSP or any type of debugging is great and very easy to use. -Omar -----Original Message----- From: Carlos Duque [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Best IDE ? Swaminathan, Depends. If coding for WAS 3.5.x, VAJ EE has some advantages because of the tight coupling between the two products, but the Smalltalk code underlying VAJ renders it rather limited and inappropriate (unit testing is essentially a contrived simulation that frequently produces inaccurate results). Moreover, it is really limited in complying with full J2EE specs, but then so is WAS. If coding for WAS 4.0 is the proposition, a far better product than WAS 3.5.x, then of the currently available IDEs VAJ should be your last choice for the reasons stated. JBuilder Enterprise Edition would be vastly better, and Forte 3.0 (either Internet if one does need the EJB templates or Enterprise Editon if one prefers them) would also be superior. Although with Forte for Java 3.0 Enterprise Edition, unit testing might be more difficult in the absence of a WAS plug in. However, the WebSphere Studio Application Developer, which is currently available only in Preview Edition (i.e., beta), unless you are among the really fortunate few, is hands down the best product for WAS 4.0. It is really well integrated, has a real WAS test environment, is geared for J2EE development-- the paradigm is different from the other IDEs, which are essentially patterned after the MS Visual Studio and its ancestors. It is due shortly for full release. It would be well worth the wait, and well worth testing. Cheers, Carlos At 12:17 AM 10/18/01, Swaminathan K N wrote: >Hi , > >Although its slightly off topic, I would like to ask this. How does the IDEs >for Java like IBM Visual Age for Java , Borland J Builder compare. Which is >more suited for J2EE development and what are the strengths and weaknesses >of these products ??? > >Thanks, >Swaminathan K.N. > >=========================================================================== >To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body >of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff EJB-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
